The parents of NewJeans members Minji, Hanni, Danielle, Haerin, and Hyein have opened a joint social media account to directly communicate their stance on the girl group’s ongoing contract dispute with label ADOR.
In the Instagram account’s first post (@jeanz_pr), their parents released a statement explaining that they felt they had no choice but to turn to social media.
They revealed that they’d turn to media outlets but felt that, despite giving interviews and attempts at clarifying facts with journalists, their statements weren’t always reported accurately.
Many outlets, they claimed, failed to represent their stories, while others were printed with “misleading headlines.”
Below is the full statement from NewJeans’ parents:
“Hello, we are the parents of Minji, Hanni, Danielle, Haerin, and Hyein,
This account has been temporarily created out of necessity to represent our stance in the dispute with HYBE.
As there has been no official channel to convey our position, we have made numerous attempts to communicate the facts through direct interviews with various media outlets or by reaching out to journalists we have come to know.
While some media outlets have faithfully reported our statements, they were very few. We also attempted to distribute statements through an agency, but headlines were often misleading, and we faced significant challenges in ensuring our position was accurately conveyed without distortion.
While articles reflecting the members’ perspectives are either misquoted, framed negatively, or barely published, HYBE and ADOR are distributing hundreds of articles daily—many of which contain false information or solely represent HYBE and ADOR’s stance—without undergoing the standard journalistic processes of fact-checking or the right to refute. This includes publications in online propaganda outlets.
[Unfortunately, ahead of the injunction lawsuit, we have received reports that HYBE and ADOR are once again circulating unfounded rumors and distributing fabricated reports to journalists in an attempt to spread false narratives about the members. This has prompted us to create this account.]
We understand that many may be weary from this prolonged dispute, and we sincerely apologize for that.
However, the content shared through this account will primarily consist of matters that the members themselves cannot easily address.
As their only spokespersons at this time, we urgently need a platform to set the record straight, and we ask for your understanding.”