Hello and welcome back to HYBE/ADOR-turned-HYBE/ADOR/Min Hee Jin/NJZ/NewJeans updates where there’s finally substantial news to report as ADOR’s injunction meant to limit the activities of NJZ as the main case …
Read More »NewJeans members announce they are now NJZ, ADOR responds + some older legal updates
Alright, so I guess the headline news of this HYBE/ADOR/Min Hee Jin/NewJeans update is that NewJeans is no longer NewJeans according to NewJeans, but is instead now New ‘Dirty Jerz’ …
Read More »ATEEZ’s Hongjoong disses Bang Si Hyuk on new track with Odetari, “SMB”
ATEEZ member Hongjoong is currently going viral for his lyrics on the Odetari song “SMB“, where he features and his verse includes lyrics that seemingly diss Bang Si Hyuk. In …
Read More »[Reviews] GFRIEND’s “Season Of Memories” folds J-pop in nicely, while SEVENTEEN BSS’s “CBZ” delivers an energy drink of a track
More and more this year I’ll probably be discussing multiple songs at once and just jotting down my thoughts about them for review-type posts, both because I don’t think formal …
Read More »An attempt to do a brief HYBE/ADOR/Min Hee Jin/NewJeans catchup post before 2025
Recent events in South Korea really drive home just how insignificant entertainment updates can be, and due to the ongoing mourning period, the appropriate dearth of updates out of the …
Read More »HYBE subsidiary TAG PR under fire in Hollywood, their involvement in Min Hee Jin conflict scrutinized
Okay, so I still have to do a HYBE/ADOR catchup post — that I’m putting off because I missed too much news that it’s now daunting — but something potentially …
Read More »Min Hee Jin replaced as ADOR CEO by the board + latest on harassment case
Following an extended back-and-forth this month with a female former ADOR employee over the handling of her sexual harassment/power harassment case against an executive, the latest in the HYBE/ADOR mess …
Read More »As Naevis is set to debut & SME plots on putting her IP everywhere, companies dream about not needing human idols
Naevis, the SM Entertainment creation as a part of aespa‘s Kwangya lore, is set to make its debut on September 10 with the single “Done“. It’s something of a long …
Read More »BTS’s Suga shows up for questioning in DUI case following the media trolling themselves, more CCTV footage released
Fortunately there hasn’t been a lot significant that’s emerged of late in Suga’s drunk driving case, but there are a few updates, with one of them even being rather amusing. …
Read More »BREAKING: Asian Junkie is bought and paid for by SM Entertainment!
K-pop has honestly been a bit slow with news recently, which I haven’t minded, but that does give me the chance to write about a comment left on the Rundown …
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