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Following getting reports on the results of Min Hee Jin’s injunction lawsuit and subsequent details in reports, now the whole court ruling on the injunction has been revealed.
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A NewJeans stan translated all of the document, which you can read if you like*.
*If a HYBE stan does one, I’ll be glad to include it for the sake of fairness, though I’ve browsed through it and there doesn’t appear to be anything egregious.
In summary, it mostly just confirms what has been reported so far, though reading through it all does give the impression that this was essentially a rejection of HYBE’s allegations.
HYBE also have to pay the legal costs*, as per Korean law.
*A smaller portion than I was aware, previously, apparently.
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International netizens have been skeptical of the court’s decision and the interpretation of it by Korean lawyers when we only had pieces of the ruling. I was open to the potential that perhaps I was being misled by unreliable lawyers, so I mostly refrained from posting that analysis. However, now that the whole ruling is out, it seems like the consensus opinions from a couple days ago have been validated.
“This verdict overwhelmingly rules against HYBE. To be honest, that is why Min Hee Jin stated that none of HYBE’s claims were accepted in court. She said that none of HYBE’s reasons to fire her were accepted in the courts, and she is basically right. In fact, the court rarely writes a verdict this unfavorable. For example, the language in the verdict is very explicit and clear, which usually isn’t the case. I think HYBE may have been shocked by this.”
Not sure where the issue goes from here, though. Still a long legal path ahead, but for now this seems to throw a wrench into any appeal plan of the ruling, barring new evidence.
I’m now mainly curious to see if HYBE tries to get the ADOR board to boot her. And if not, then whether further stuff comes out for the other legal battles, since they will most likely determine whether HYBE will have to pay Min Hee Jin out or whether they can dismiss her for cause. Certainly this court ruling doesn’t help them, though.
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Note: I’ve seen Korean and international netizens talking about the articles that claim the court ruling validated the allegation that HYBE gave a Louis Vuitton deal meant for NewJeans to LE SSERAFIM. However, while that was alleged by Min Hee Jin a while back, the ruling itself appears to mostly focus on the trade secrets stuff, and I don’t think any of what’s being claimed is an admission that it happened. Maybe a lawyer can correct me there, but I’m not trusting random netizens for that analysis, and in my view it was not remarked on by the court but included as part of the claims of one side.
