https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmLKmY4q4xA
Dec 11 2024, 17:49 KST
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmLKmY4q4xA
As Manager A of group NewJeans has reported ADOR CEO Kim Joo-young for workplace harassment, ADOR has refuted these claims, leading to a sharp conflict of opinions between NewJeans' manager and ADOR.
In response, Manager A has made public through Channel A the email sent to CEO Kim Joo-young after being investigated by ADOR.
Dear Joo-young,
Do you think it was respectful treatment to call me back to the company for an urgent discussion when I was leaving work, and then conduct an investigation? Despite being on my way home, I came back to the company promptly out of responsibility for the discussion, but since I hadn't expected an investigation, I didn't have my PC with me. Even though I said I would return it tomorrow if needed, you wouldn't let me go home, insisting it had to be submitted today. When I didn't come to the company by choice and you forcibly prevented me from leaving after I said I would submit it tomorrow, what is that if not coercion?
You even tried to test me with false information, saying 'Security reported that CCTV footage shows you entered the building with a carrier,' and conducted the investigation in an inhumane and unreasonable way, saying 'We will contact your parents through the emergency contact information in HR to verify the facts.' After submitting the PC, it's natural to go home, so why describe my leaving - exhausted from the investigation - as 'fleeing the company'?
You say I need to be investigated for misconduct, but I clearly explained that I only conveyed the members' requests as asked. Regarding the fulfillment of advertising contracts signed before the termination of the exclusive contract, I accurately conveyed to the brands the members' intention to fulfill the contracts as before the termination, and accurately conveyed the brands' intentions back to the members. I fulfilled my duty as a manager to accurately convey the members' intentions regardless of the situation.
However, you wrote in your email that I "contacted various advertisers directly and proposed direct contracts between artists and brands while excluding the company," and claimed that I admitted to this. You are turning my accurate conveyance of the members' intentions into misconduct, as if I acted against ADOR's interests based on my own will and judgment. I clearly stated to the brands that I was conveying the members' intentions, and made no statements that could be misunderstood as ADOR's position or as being related to ADOR. What you wrote in your email is clearly false and an attempt to defame me. It was a request from the members who couldn't contact brands directly, and preventing or blocking this could actually be considered misconduct.
As I mentioned before, I am the members' manager. A manager's basic duty is to accurately convey the members' intentions and accurately relay the other party's intentions back to the members. My basic duties as a manager don't change just because there's conflict between the company and members.
And you say I lied, but what exactly did I lie about? I clearly stated that from what I remember now, I conveyed intentions to '000' at the members' request. I also said I would share information after returning to Korea, and pointed out that if I were trying to hide something, why would I mention '000' now?
Please stop distorting and misrepresenting my responses. At the time in Japan, my work priority was ensuring that members and staff could proceed with their many schedules without issues despite the confusing situation. I was the one who respected both the company and members while proceeding with schedules, while the ADOR executives never gave any feedback or showed interest in our schedules on site. Moreover, when outsourcing companies asked where to deposit schedule guarantees given the current situation, I told them it should go to ADOR. It's not right to say I committed misconduct when I've acted this way.
Therefore, I disagreed with being put on standby due to alleged misconduct, and expressed my intention to resign in response to this treatment.