'GoSo vs Mugo' Min Heejin X Hive, this time 'Text leak'Mud fighting

Jul 24, 2024

'GoSo vs Mugo' Min Heejin X Hive, this time 'Text leak'Mud fighting
While CEO Odor Min Hee-jin filed a complaint against five Hive Egan on charges of obstruction of business and defamation, the parent company Hive also sued the management of Newgins agency, Ador Min Hee-jin, and countered that it would respond with innocence.

On the 24th, Hive announced its position on the management's complaint against the group's agency, Adore Min Hee-jin.

Hive will inform you of the allegations made by CEO Min Hee-jin and Adore today by suing Hive's management," said the official statement.

CEO Min Hee-jin has not submitted any information assets such as laptops to Hive so far. I've never responded to your appreciation"The two deputy representatives submitted their information assets with their own consent. We didn't forcefully acquire it," he stressed.

In the meantime, "We have already told the court on the date of the provisional interrogation that CEO Min Hee-jin has never forensics the laptop he returned in the past."CEO Min Hee-jin sent a number of work materials to his Hive business email account, including transcripts of conversations with shamans, which remained on our server."," he said, explaining how CEO Min Hee-jin's personal Kakao Talk message remained on Hive.

"The external recipient of this e-mail is identified as a high-ranking official of partner company B," Hive said. "CEO Min Hee-jin agreed to the processing of personal information at the time of Hive's joining, and has already disclosed this information at the date of the provisional interrogation. I would like to inform you that we will respond to CEO Min Hee-jin and others who sued him for false information despite saying the circumstances of the acquisition several times," he said, directly refuting CEO Min Hee-jin's claims of illegal acquisition of personal information.

Earlier in the day, CEO Min Hee-jin filed a complaint against CEO Park Ji-won, audit committee chairman Lim Soo-hyun, chief legal officer Jung Jin-soo, chief financial officer Lee Kyung-joon, and chief communications officer Park Tae-hee on charges of obstruction of business, detection of contents such as electronic records, violation of laws on the promotion of the use of information and communications networks, and violation of laws on the promotion of the use of information and communications networks and information protection.

Min Hee-jin claims that Hive illegally acquired messenger conversations and personal information between individuals, leaked and distorted them without permission, and edited them. Recently, Min Hee-jin, CEO of Adore, talked with a shaman was revealed through a media outlet, and he was suspected of pulling it out of Source Music during Newzins' debut.

'GoSo vs Mugo' Min Heejin X Hive, this time 'Text leak'Mud fighting
Adore Min Hee-jin, the head of the group Newzins, held an emergency press conference at the Seoul Press Center on the 31st. CEO Min Hee-jin answering questions. Reporter Huh Sang-wook @sportschosun.com/2024.05.31/
Meanwhile, Hive conducted an emergency audit in April, believing that CEO Min attempted to take over management rights, and accused CEO Min and other Odor management of professional malpractice. In response, Min held an emergency press conference and refuted it, saying, `It's just a personal side conversation.' Hive had planned to vote on Min's dismissal through an extraordinary shareholders' meeting by holding an 80% stake in Adore, but Min filed an application for a ban on voting rights. After the court accepted the injunction request on May 30, Min retained his position as representative in his second press conference, saying, `We await smooth consultation with Hive," he said in a gesture of reconciliation. However, the mud house fight started again when Hive sued the management.

▶ Hereinafter, Hive's official admission full text

Hello, I'm informing you from Hive.

I would like to inform you of the allegations made by CEO Min Hee-jin of A-Door and others who sued Hive's management today.

CEO Min Hee-jin has not submitted any information assets such as laptops to Hive so far. I've never responded to your appreciation.

The two deputy representatives submitted their information assets with their own consent. We didn't forcibly acquire it. The company has already revealed in court on the date of the provisional interrogation that CEO Min Hee-jin has never forensics the laptop he returned in the past. CEO Min Hee-jin sent a number of work materials to his Hive work email account, including conversation records with shamans, to the outside, which remained on our server.

The external recipient of this email was identified as a high-ranking official of partner company B. CEO Min Hee-jin agreed to process personal information at the time of joining Hive, and has already revealed this at the date of the provisional interrogation.

I would like to inform you that we will respond to CEO Min Hee-jin and others who sued with false information despite revealing the circumstances of the acquisition several times.

▶ full text of Doror's complaint

Today (July 24), CEO Min Hee-jin and others filed a complaint with Yongsan Police Station against Hive CEO Park Ji-won, Audit Committee Chairman Lim Soo-hyun, Chief Legal Officer Chung Jin-soo, Chief Financial Officer Lee Kyung-joon, and Chief Communications Officer Park Tae-hee on charges of obstruction of business, detection of contents such as electronic records, violation of the law on promoting the use of information and communication networks, and violation of the law on promoting the use of information and communication networks and information protection (defamation).

The above Defendants have repeated numerous times the illegal messenger conversation between individuals, the leakage of personal information without permission, and the false editing of personal information as intended. In April, the defendants forcibly acquired the Adore-owned business laptop PCs used by the complainants in the name of `audit of subsidiaries of the parent company' with the aim of dismissing CEO Min Hee-jin's two complaints from the CEO. Through this, we secured the personal KakaoTalk message conversations of the complainants, and illegally acquired personal conversations, not work, by forensizing the laptop that CEO Min Hee-jin returned after initializing when he took office at Door around 2022. In addition, the Defendants edited and distorted the acquired personal conversations, made press releases that differ from the facts about the plaintiff's management and performance, and distributed them to the media to form negative public opinion about the plaintiff, Min Hee-jin.

The complainant has repeatedly officially and informally asked artists and members of the adore to stop such activities, causing confusion to the public, but the defendants' illegal activities have continued until recently. As a result, we can no longer neglect the damage caused by these illegal activities to artists and adore members, so we take action



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