NewJeans' Agency ADOR Releases Statement Addressing "Bubble Gum" Plagiarism Accusations And HYBE PR Affairs

Jul 23, 2024

ADOR, home to NewJeans, has shared a detailed statement regarding various recent matters.

On July 23, ADOR took to social media to release a statement addressing plagiarism accusations involving NewJeans’ “Bubble Gum” as well as problems with HYBE handling ADOR’s PR (public relations).

The statement reads as follows:

NewJeans' Agency ADOR Releases Statement Addressing

After the release of this statement, ADOR modified the content on page 6 as follows:

"Because the content on page 6 has been interpreted differently from what was written and there have been many complaints to DC Inside, we are correcting the ‘agency hotline’ by adding it to the ‘agency hotline for reporting agency posts’.
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Considering these circumstances, we have been doing our best to take matters into our own hands. As we speak, the matter is being looked into by legal teams representing Beasts And Native Alike, who handle NewJeans’ music, and representing the songwriters and their publishers. We have also been relying on our own people to monitor the situation ourselves, working hard to correct any misinformation we find. We’re doing our best to counter hateful comments and defamatory content online, but HYBE’s legal team reported that, generally speaking, it’s difficult to track down the users leaving nasty comments on Korean forums like DC Inside, especially those who leave messages without an account. Fed up with this state of affairs, ADOR president Min Hee Jin requested to meet the online forum’s CEO, Kim Yusik, personally, and discussed ways to track down and root out such users. We learned from this meeting that there is a hotline available for reporting agency posts, and that through close collaboration with investigative agencies, malicious comments from users without IDs can be detected. The reason we’re explaining this here is to let it serve as a reminder to anyone who thinks they can hide behind their anonymity on such websites to spread nasty rumors, and to anyone who allows such behavior to continue unchecked. Rest assured we are taking every possible step to curb these spiteful comments, anonymous or otherwise, and that we are using everything at our disposal to make sure we properly defend NewJeans."

source: Soompi