To those in the know, this reads like some dude gets introduced to kpop through New Jeans and thinks he can talk about an entire industry, and falls into the same fandom trap of blindly glazing this group and their creative director (she does not produce the music). This writer is lost in the sauce.

Just rereading the article, and apparently the reporter has found an English Korean source! Bravo! Maybe cherrypicking from it to gas up a woman who tried ruining five girls' careers (not to mention two other groups) for her own profit was not a good idea? Don't fit the news to conform to your beat.

What is playing out in the court system in Korea is nowhere in this article. There are even English sources from Korea about the case, so there truly is no excuse for why nobody in the west is doing due diligence. I can suggest a few to your reporters if you like, if they can't find them themselves.

New Jeans is not trying to change kpop. Nothing to do with the "evils of kpop", either. The group also wasn't benched—they benched themselves to temporarily follow a Svengali-like woman who desires complete control over them. Even now that two members have gone back, she still wants the last word.

Came here to see if others were calling out this piece, because it was so bad, it startled me. Why is western journalism allergic to doing actual due diligence around this case? This article has nothing to do with the actual New Jeans case and I'm so baffled by the lack of facts in it.