'Illegal Acquisition and Leakage of Texts'Adore, Hive Park Ji-won, and five other executives are sued

Jul 24, 2024

'Illegal Acquisition and Leakage of Texts'Adore, Hive Park Ji-won, and five other executives are sued
Dore's CEO Min Hee-jin held a press conference about the confrontation with Hive. CEO Min Hee-jin answers questions at a press conference held at the Korea Conference Center on the 25th. Reporter Huh Sang-wook @sportschosun.com/2024.04.25/
CEO of Odor Min Hee-jin and others filed a complaint against five Hive executives on charges of defamation and other charges.

On the 24th, CEO Min Hee-jin and others filed a complaint with Yongsan Police Station today (July 24) 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)" he said.

He then argued that "the above defendants have repeated numerous times the behavior of illegally acquired messenger conversations between individuals, leaking personal information without permission, and falsely editing it according to their intentions.'

In April, the Defendants forcibly acquired the Adore-owned business laptop PCs used by the Defendants in the name of the 'Appreciation of the subsidiary of the parent company' for the purpose of dismissing CEO Min Hee-jin's two internal complaintsThrough this, we secured the personal KakaoTalk message conversation contents of the complainants, and when CEO Min Hee-jin took office at Adore around 2022, he also forensics the laptop that he returned after initializing and illegally acquiring personal conversations, not work," he added.

In addition, the Defendants edited and distorted the acquired personal conversations, made press releases that differ from the facts about the management and performance of the complainant Min Hee-jin's duties, and distributed them to the media to form negative public opinion against the complainant Min Hee-jin.

Finally, the complainant has repeatedly officially and informally requested the artists and members of the adore to stop such activities, causing confusion to the public, but the defendants' illegal activities have continued until recently"We take action because we can no longer neglect the damage to artists and adore members caused by these illegal activities."

Earlier, Dispatch raised a 'Suspicion of stealing New Jin's members' based on the contents of the Kakao Talk chat shared with the shaman by CEO of Door Min Hee-jin. Dispatch initially raised suspicions that CEO Min had participated in the Source Music trainee N team debut project, which included members of the Newzins, as a branding role, but Min expanded his territory four times and intentionally delayed the N team's debut schedule in order to lead the debut of the Newzins. In response, representative Min made it clear that it was a false fact and said he would take legal action in the future.

'Illegal Acquisition and Leakage of Texts'Adore, Hive Park Ji-won, and five other executives are sued
▶ 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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