🔗 Email Sent by NewJeans Manager Ms. A to ADOR (Channel A Exclusive Report)

Ms. Ju-young,

Do you think that calling me back to the company as I was getting off work, claiming urgent discussion was needed, and then proceeding with an investigation was treating me humanely? Even though I was on my way home, I came to the company quickly out of a sense of responsibility for the discussion. Because I did not expect an investigation, I did not have my PC with me. Even though I said I would return it tomorrow if necessary, you insisted that you had to receive it within the day and did not let me go home. If blocking me from leaving when I said I would submit it tomorrow and leave is not coercion, then what is?

You even tried to bait me with false information, saying, “The security team checked the CCTV and said you entered the building with a suitcase,” and conducted the investigation in an inhumane and nonsensical manner, stating, “I will contact your parents through the emergency contact list in the HR information to verify the facts.” Why do you describe my leaving as “fleeing the company” when it was a natural act for me to go home after finally submitting the PC, exhausted from the investigation?

You state that I need to be investigated because I committed misconduct, but I clearly told you that I only conveyed the members’ intent upon their request. Regarding the fulfillment of advertising contracts signed before the termination of the exclusive contract, I accurately conveyed to the brand side the members’ intent to fulfill the contracts just as before the termination, and I also accurately conveyed the brand side’s intent to the members. Regardless of the situation, I fulfilled my duty as a manager to accurately convey the members’ intent.

However, Ms. Ju-young, you stated in your email that “there was an incident where you contacted several advertisers directly and proposed signing contracts directly between the artist and the brand, excluding the company,” and that I admitted to this. You are transforming my act of accurately conveying the members’ intent into misconduct, as if I acted against ADOR’s interests according to my own will and judgment. I made it clear to the brand side that I was conveying the members’ intent, and I never made any remarks that could be misunderstood as ADOR’s position or related to ADOR. The content you wrote in the email is clearly a lie and an act of slandering me.

It was the request of the members who could not contact the brands directly, and hindering or blocking this could actually be misconduct.

As I mentioned earlier, I am the members’ manager. A manager’s basic duty is to accurately convey the members’ intent and also accurately convey the other party’s intent to the members. Just because a conflict has arisen between the company and the members, my basic duty as a manager does not change. Also, you claim I lied, but what lie did I tell? At the time, I clearly told you that the place I conveyed the intent to, as far as I could remember, was OOO. I also said I intended to share this upon returning to the country, and asked why I would even mention ‘OOO’ now if I were trying to hide it.

Please do not distort or mislead regarding the answers I gave. My priority in my work in Japan at the time was to ensure that the members and staff could proceed with many schedules without issues amidst the chaotic situation. It was I who proceeded with the schedules while respecting both the company and the members; rather, the ADOR management never gave us on the ground any feedback or words of interest regarding the schedules. Furthermore, when external vendors asked where to deposit schedule guarantees given the current situation, I told them it should be done to ADOR. It makes no sense to say that I committed misconduct.

Therefore, I did not agree to the statement of a standby order based on misconduct, and I expressed my intention to resign due to this treatment.

Even amidst the conflict between the company and the members, I approached my work respecting both sides, and in the process of conveying each other’s positions, I did so objectively and factually without distortion. Rather, the current ADOR management made a strange demand to me, saying, “We thought that as management, you would select and convey only the content necessary from the company’s perspective to the members or their legal representatives.”

Who is it that truly worked hard while respecting both the company and the members?

Who is it that truly committed misconduct?

I would like to ask whether it is I, who worked diligently to prevent misunderstandings and problems in the middle and strove to let the members and staff focus only on the schedules so they wouldn’t be agitated, or the ADOR management, who did not pay attention even when the members were confused and anxious at the schedule sites, but instead told me to select and convey only necessary information favoring one side.

I backed up all company data and even showed you the data indicating the backup was done. It is a matter of checking the backed-up data, and if there are any questions, you can ask me specifically.

I formatted the PC and submitted it because there was personal data on it in addition to company data; I did not damage the PC itself or the company data contained within. I tell you once again, do not intimidate me by carelessly using terms like illegal acts or misconduct.

Also, the mobile phone I use is my personal phone. By what right do you contact me asking to see my phone?

Do you think you are an investigative agency that has received a search and seizure warrant? Or do you think you transcend investigative agencies?

I am surprised once again that you commit illegal acts so casually, and I could not help but be appalled to see you announcing lies to the media.

Please stop sending emails that slander or intimidate me with fact distortion and bizarre logic.