New Jean’s Parents Speak Out Again

New Jean’s parents have once again spoken out, this time on the Hanni being bullied by befit labs.

I will summarize everything into bullet points though this still ended up pretty long. I also apologize if this seems a bit unorganized? But the article was the different parents/mothers talking so it was a bit all over the place to begin with.

While I bullet pointed everything together, I just want to clarify two things which is that they bounce between two different dates/conversations in this. The first date is New Jeans and their parents meeting with the new Ador CEO on September 23rd, and the other is the new Ador CEO's response to the meeting via an email on September 25th.

I also have no idea if this helps at all, but I tried to divide things up with ● being the parent and the ○ being Hybe

Part 1
●To begin, the situation with Hanni and the manager happened sometime in May.
● Hanni’s mother brought up the bullying Hanni faced to the other mothers at the end of May.
●Between May and June, since MHJ’s situation was all over the place they went to Hybe’s HR person (aka the current Ador CEO) to talk about Hanni’s bullying.
○ Hybe’s HR did not respond immediately, and a said that due to the time passing, the CCTV footage of the incident has been deleted.
● They brought up the incident to Hybe in June, so they are confused why they are only looking into the CCTV now, 4 months later.
● They are also confused about whether or not the CCTV would have audio or not, and why they aren’t just having Hanni and the other party involved meet together to discuss this.
○ Hybe said It would be difficult to recover the footage after 30 days.
● The parents said in the end only 8 seconds of footage was recovered, which was of Hanni and the other artists greeting each other, and they are suspicious as to why the problematic scenes “suddenly disappeared”.
○ When asked why the scene was deleted they couldn’t get a straight answer. The security team, who were in charge of finding the tapes, blamed their manager but the manager blamed a former employee who has since quit. They also were apparently fidgeting and couldn’t look Hanni in the eyes while giving this answer.

Part 2
● On Sept 23rd the new Hybe CEO asked to meet with the NJ members and the parents went along as well because they didn’t trust their kids alone in the meeting. During this meeting they brought the bullying issue again.
○ New CEO claimed the footage has no sound so they can’t specify the scene in which it happened, and that they went through a month’s worth of footage and couldn't find it.
● The parents snapped back asking why can’t they just go to look at the footage specifically from the date it happened, and the body language and atmosphere of the video should imply bullying was taking place.
● Something around here they were talking about missing documentation and that the whole trail of this was very messy?
● The parents asked for a copy of the footage and they received it by email on the 25th.
●They then said Hybe was handling this sloppy and Hybe should have be handling this more neutrally since it’s an issue between their sub labels.
●The parents then found out Belift was in charge of looking for the footage/submitting the materials and criticized Hybe for this because they feel Hybe should have been handling the investigation to stay neutral. (I’m assuming the incident happened in Belift’s part of the building?)
●The parents felt:​

●The parents then claimed Belfit most likely deleted the footage and asked why are the perpetrators in charge of finding the footage in the first place.
○ New CEO criticized Hanni for not bringing this up sooner (because then the footage wouldn’t have been deleted), and in response Hanni felt like she did something wrong (trying to guilt trip her)
●The mothers then said Hanni did bring the issue up quickly but this was not handled fast enough.

This next part i'm just going to put in another quote:​

● They then claimed the new CEO started tearing up/crying in front of the members, which they thought was low because they felt like the girls “did not have much social experience”.
● One of the members then started crying, asking why they were making them out to be the bad guys
●The mothers then felt guilty for making the members go through all of this when they should have just been in school.
● During this meeting they also brought up the pre debut videos being leaked.
○The new ceo respond that fans have already reported source music and the media outlet that leaked it to the police and they should wait for the results of that investigation.
○ The new ceo also said that they could file a lawsuit against source music, but they advised against it since it could be viewed negatively in the media and they most likely would loose. They also said Ador sent a letter to Source in august via the media about the incident but got no response.
● The parents were confused why they are being asked to wait for the fan’s lawsuit to end first and at the same time being told if they were to sue there could be no criminal repercussions to source.
○ Ador did say though if they still wanted to sue source music they would provide all the materials and such to do so.

The parents final words are:​

Hybe’s only response was that they are still investigating.

Belifts’s Response To The Parents

After the parents went to the media a second time, Belift labs was quick to release a counter statement.​

To summarize what Belift said of their findings:
- Belift said no manager ever told Illit to ignore new jeans, and Illit has never not greeted New Jeans.
- Belift said the incident happened on May 27th and the parents brought up the incident on June 13th
- They said on the 14th after receiving the report Belift labs held a meeting with Illit and the manager to investigate the situation and all of them said the accusations were untrue.
- They requested Hybe to review all footage between May 14th - June 13th since the NJ members did not give them a specific date to look into.
- They said the only time the two groups ever met was on an elevator on the 27th for about 5 minutes.
- They said that in the situation Illit got off the elevator and greeted Hanni, who was waiting to get on the elevator. All the Illit members greeted Hanni with a 90 degree bow as they walked past her exiting the elevator.
- (Just to clarify, Illit was exiting the elevator to walk down the hall into the styling area, and Hanni was exiting the styling area to walk into the elevator).
- On June 19th they relayed all of these findings to the higher ups of Ador and Hybe.
- They then said they reviewed this video footage with New Jeans, Hybe, and relevant Belift and Ador higherups (including MHJ) on August 14th who then said there must be a second video because the bullying incident happened after this video, and there must be a second video where they were told not to greet Hanni.
- They said the security company said at this point they cannot recover the video because the 30 day period where it's saved has passed, but MHJ is claiming they deleted the video.

To Finish:
- They then went on to say that Illit's staff only uses honorifics with celebrities, so them telling Illit to ignore them would not match up to those standards.
- They then claimed that CCTV doesn't record audio so there is no support to the claim that a manager said to ignore them.
Here is a quote I would like to throw in:​

- They said they have been refraining from making a public statement on this because their staff is in a weaker position to defend themselves compared to a celebrity, but since NJ's "untrue stories" have been causing the worker's injustice and mental distress they demanding an apology from the New Jeans members and Ador label.​