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Warning: The following statement contains illegally obtained private chats that were dismissed in court.
This is a notice from HYBE.
We inform that the audit conducted by our audit team on the evening of May 9 regarding the ADOR team leader was carried out legally and in a non-coercive manner with the consent of the auditee.
We would like to clarify the false claims made by CEO Min Hee Jin as follows:
Regarding the claim that the audit lasted from 7 p.m. until past midnight
The team leader arrived at the office at 6 p.m. yesterday. She received a call from the audit team on the way to the office, and the audit began after the team leader replied that she would agree to start the audit at 7 p.m.
Regarding the claim of coercing [the audit] after following a female employee to her home late at night after 10 p.m.
During the audit process, the team leader admitted to having received hundreds of millions of won worth of money and valuables from outsourcing companies over several years with the approval of Min Hee Jin. The team leader then expressed willingness to submit her personal laptop left at home. Consequently, with her consent, only a female employee accompanied the team leader into her home to retrieve the laptop.
Regarding the claim of forcing consent to use personal information
The team leader who is the auditee consented to the use of her personal information and expressed her intent to cooperate, even submitting her laptop.
Regarding the claim of demanding the collection of her personal cell phone
CEO Min Hee Jin and some ADOR employees did not use the official company messaging application for work conversations at all, carrying out all business conversations only via KakaoTalk. Although the audit team requested the submission of data stored on the cell phone, the team leader did not comply, and the audit team did not request any further.
Regarding the claim that it is a common practice in the advertising industry and embezzlement cannot be established
There is no such practice where a company’s full-time employee directly receives hundreds of millions of won in benefits from advertisers. The fact that such amounts, which should be recognized as company revenue, were privately handed over and that the CEO knowingly tolerated this for years is not a practice but a clear illegality. Moreover, Min Hee Jin has not initiated any follow-up measures such as recovery or penalties for the illegal payments. We expect that the whereabouts of the hundreds of millions of won worth of unjust profits received by the team leader will be clearly revealed through further investigation.
We are disclosing part of the conversation between Min Hee Jin and the ADOR management team related to this matter, as confirmed during the audit process, attached below.
Min Hee Jin is well aware that a significant amount of money and valuables was received under her tacit approval. When HYBE HR inquired about the matter, Min Hee Jin treated it like it was no big deal even when she knew how serious this matter is. Then, she internally discussed ceasing the team leader’s acceptance of money and valuables, using HYBE as an excuse.
We express our strong regret toward Min Hee Jin’s side for issuing a statement based on false information, attempting to mislead the public once again. This is serious defamation of the company.
We also express our strong regret about the team leader involved not being protected but instead being specifically identified to the media. This audit was conducted on an ADOR employee, not an executive, and HYBE had no intentions to disclose this matter to the media. However, with Min Hee Jin’s statement, the entire nation became aware of the audit. If Min Hee Jin had any intention of protecting her employee as her boss, she should not have done so.
We will take all possible civil and criminal legal actions regarding this matter.
These are the KakaoTalk messages attached by HYBE:
Min Hee Jin: So here’s what will be said at the meeting tomorrow (both of you listen carefully)
Good work the past year (introduction nothing more than a formality), since ___’s incentive is replaced by the advertising fee, mention the exact amount so that they can know that the advertising fee was ___won.
Make them aware that it is a large amount (surprisingly, this is someone who can pretend not to know that it is a large amount even if they do know)
Sometimes we should cosplay like lacking social skills in order to make people aware
1. Use HYBE as an excuse to notify about changes in advertising-related tasks by saying that HYBE tackled this matter.
(It is the basic guideline that concurrent employment is prohibited in HYBE, but actually I permitted this under my authority. But since a risk has surfaced, it would be foolish to explain the situation in a way that will direct the resentment toward ADOR)
Humans are cunning so say they are grateful when they receive an unexpected benefit, but they are not really good at evaluating the extent of the benefit. However, when they are put in the same situation as others due to a penalty (even though there is no loss in reality), it is common for them to feel resentment.
You know what I mean, right
Lee: Yes
S: Yes
Min Hee Jin: So in times like this, we should use HYBE.
When else would we get to use HYBE
There is an actual possibility of problems occurring in terms of HR.
HYBE requested corrections and improvements. Saying it like this will be less painful for them
Anyway, moving on, that is that, but there are criticisms that there are many problems within ADOR as well.
Continuing with
(We should never make adjustments based solely on the HYBE’s attacks. If we do so, this may result in their lack of awareness of the work that was handled wrongly by themselves.)
So
2. List the problems and make them aware of the need for corrective action for improvement.
Actually, this is the most important part. / The problem of individuals monopolizing labor costs has caused other employees to feel deprived (in fact, if the managers want to bring up problems, they can raise issues even now) This may have already been mentioned in 1, but it needs to be said again.
___ is a ___ person so we need to specifically let them know what kind of problem this is.
S: Okay
Min Hee Jin: Isn’t the advertising fee received all alone, don’t you think it is a problem that the assistants are working without getting paid? Honestly, when we first gave permission,
it didn’t occur to us that we should think about this matter seriously either. (Because at that time, there were too few assistants, and they were considered more like part-timers)
In fact, there is this problem because ___ voluntarily disclosed this to us first.
Maybe it should’ve been done, but it wasn’t
In fact, we just took advantage of the situation on purpose (making an excuse for being short-thinking). ___ also
S: Yes
Lee: In the beginning, Min Hee Jin was being considerate, but as the advertising amount grew,
1) A structure where the compensation for areas other than the main job gets too large,
2) A structure where the team’s resources work for ___’s personal reward.
3) The issues where the limited resources affect the schedule
occurred.
These problems are in a situation where individual efforts alone are not enough, but it can only be resolved through changing the work process/structure.
Min Hee Jin: Yes, this is actually a big problem internally as well
This is also a task we must resolve first before being caught by HYBE
Audit issues may arise, actually.
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