HYBE completely lost all five legal battles against Min Hee-jin + HYBE's Q4 Earnings Financial Report Revealed today - will they have enough money to pay back Min Heejin?
[theqoo - hot] HYBE completely lost all five legal battles against Min Hee-jin
date: 12/02/2026
[Summary of the Shareholder Agreement Court Ruling]
Copying (plagiarism): Complaints about copying are justified
Pushing out: It is true that HYBE proposed pushing (someone) out
Tampering: There was no attempt of MHJ poaching NewJeans
Leak of confidential information: Is this even grounds for contract termination? It wasn’t confidential information and was a legitimate counterargument
Press conference: It was not intended to sway public opinion. Min Hee-jin acted while accepting the risk of damages
Judge: “HYBE did not suffer any damages from Min Hee-jin’s claims of copying and the publicizing of the push-out; on the contrary, it was an opportunity to reconsider corporate transparency.”
So refreshing~
COMMENTS
1. ILLIT in the end is a plagiarism idol group, they really copied NewJeans like that
2. Wow, this is so refreshing!!!
3. Justice implementation
4. The refresh-ness of this is crazy I hope the corrupt HYBE goes down.
5. Haha, an individual won against a large corporation.
6. Ah, it feels so good, real justice is being realised.
7. I'm not a fan of anyone, I just said they were similar because they were similar, but I got ridiculed, so this part is refreshing.
8. In the end, it's really true that ILLIT copied NewJeans. Honestly, if you have eyes you can tell ㅋㅋㅋㅋ
9. Wow, justice has prevailed
10. Wow, congratulations!! I'm a muggle who doesn't know much, but I'm rooting for Min Hee Jin. There must have been a lot of people like me who were quietly cheering for her because this issue was so loudㅋㅋㅋ
11. Where did all the people who used to shield Bang Si-hyuk go? ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
12. Those kids who were criticizing Min Hee Jin should now sell their HYBE concert tickets so they can pay the legal feesㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
13. Wow, so this whole time they just criticised Min Hee-jin without even looking at the Court results..? There was so much fuss on the Hot category that I thought the results were out
14. I hope the worst viral marketing company in Korea would come to its senses now, but Bang Si-hyuk himself has a bad personality. He's a jerk who's jealous of his employees, backstabs them, competes with viral marketing, and is full of other tricks.
15. With this ruling, wouldn't NewJeans also be able to win if it appeals? It's a shame for NewJeans
16. It's actually difficult for the Court to rule something as a copy so this is a real victory congrats congrats
17. Give me back my Danielle
18. Those HYBE part-timers are a bunch of idiots. They really manipulate public opinion.
19. ㅋㅋㅋHive really is a mess ㅋㅋㅋㅋ It's not even a den of losers, the documents written by those celebrities were shady from the start, just grow up and do things properly already, damn
20. Honestly, I thought she'd lose in the first trial. Plagiarism itself is a difficult field to acknowledge... I don't know about anything else, but Min Hee-jin has left her mark on intellectual property rights against large corporations. Regardless of personal feelings, it's a significant achievement. Of course, as is often the case with large Korean corporations, if it goes to the Supreme Court, there's a high chance that the case will be invalidated or Min Hee-jin will lose because of the extensive legal interpretation and evidentiary admissibility. Still, it's still a significant achievement.
[theqoo - hot] HYBE's Q4 2025 earnings released today
date: 12/02/2026
2026.02.12 16:56:54
Company Name: Hive (Market Capitalization: KRW 16.3765 trillion)
Report Title: Consolidated Financial Statements Based on Operating Results (Provisional) (Fair Disclosure)
Sales: KRW 716.4 billion (expected: KRW 703.5 billion +/ 2%)
Operating profit: KRW 4.6 billion (expected: KRW 7.3 billion/ -37%)
Net income: -267.8 billion won (expected: -45.1 billion won/-494%)
**Recent Performance Trends**
2025.4Q 716.4 billion / 4.6 billion / -267.8 billion
2025.3Q 727.2 billion / -42.2 billion / -52 billion
2025.2Q 705.6 billion / 65.9 billion / 15.5 billion
2025.1Q 500.6 billion / 21.6 billion / 54.4 billion
2024.4Q 726.4 billion / 64.6 billion / -26.1 billion
COMMENTS
1. I wonder where HYBE is spending its money. I think that's a sign of incompetent management.
2. It seems like all the money is being spent on economic criminals and criminal bastards making their own idols viral and counter-viral.
3. Do they have money to give Min Hee-jin?
4. Marketing costs seem to be huge, so sales must be quite high, but judging by the deficit, it seems like they're spending more than expected... It seems like they're spending more on viral marketing than what's reasonably spent on marketing.
5. Giving out PR tags, giving it to Kim & Chang, my money is being spent everywhere. They jacked up the concert ticket prices, and the net profit is still negative? Are they insane?
6. All the singers from their agency are doing well. Where did they spend all that money? It seems like the executives are eating it all up. Don't they need to investigate this?
7. The stock price doesn't make sense when the company is like this.
8. How did they manage to get such a low net profit?
9. They're going to raise the prices of goods and tickets even more.
10. Wouldn't it be right to start by firing the incompetent executives who are receiving a salary? They're the ones responsible for the nonsense that's accumulating losses.
11. It's a mess ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ How is this company going to run?
12. I'm a fan of a singer under HYBE, but I hope HYBE goes bankrupt. I hardly spend any money on HYBE these days.
13. No matter how much money they spend on viral marketing, it's still a waste of money??
14. The cost of viral marketing and the cost of part-time workers in various communities must be enormous ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
15. That’s probably what happens when you do shady stuff behind the scenes. The idols under your label are making good sales, but what the heck are you doing, HYBE?
16. Where are you even spending all this money, lol? Truly a company that does everything from manipulating sales, viral stuff, documents, plagiarism just what you’d expect.
17. Probably rigging streams, pushing tracks, faking chart numbers, all those kinds of things.
18. How kind of the HYBE shareholders who have not decided to start a fire yet.
19. Shouldn't we be investigating their tax?
20. At this point, I'm starting to doubt whether the album sales and popularity of their artists are real... They seem to be spreading a lot of viral content and have been caught for personal gain... And on top of that, all the investments in games and strange new businesses have gone down the drain, but it seems like they're just using their real name and size to get investment money and do whatever they want and make a killing...
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