The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism will order an investigation into the alleged chart-rigging practice, known as sajaegi in Korea, of boy band BTS's agency HYBE back in 2017.
NewJeans producer Min Hee-jin demanded the right to terminate ADOR's contract with NewJeans without board approval, according to reports.
With the National Assembly speaker preparing to leave the country for a trip to the United States without putting to a vote under his jurisdiction several controversial bills, Park Jie-won called him “a son of bitch.”
The first court hearing on opening a shareholders meeting for ADOR, the subsidiary of K-pop powerhouse HYBE and the agency of girl group NewJeans, will take place on Tuesday afternoon.
Model Kim Jin-kyung and footballer Kim Seung-gyu, the goalkeeper for Korea’s national football team, will hold their wedding in June, the model's agency Sublime announced Monday.
Girl group NewJeans' agency ADOR will not hold its board meeting on Tuesday as requested by its 80-percent stakeholder HYBE last week.
The HYBE-ADOR feud took a strange turn over the weekend when Korean online users dug up old dirt on the BTS agency involving its alleged connections to a religious cult and an instance of the company being blackmailed in 2017.
Rookie Im Jin-hee set a new tournament low, shooting eight-under-par, 63, on moving day.
Sakura of girl group Le Sserafim did not participate in a fan sign event that took place on Saturday in Japan amid ongoing tensions between HYBE and its label ADOR CEO Min Hee-jin.
The music video for NewJeans' new track "Bubble Gum" surpassed 5 million views just 13 hours after its release on Friday midnight on YouTube, with over 43,000 comments expressing love and support for the quintet.
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