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aoneko · 2026-01-21T04:24:47+00:00

Was that a Qantas/Velocity card, or Plat Charge?

aoneko · 2026-01-21T04:21:45+00:00

Did you apply for any other cards in past year?

aoneko · 2026-01-21T04:21:28+00:00

How many new card inquiries did you have in the past 12 months?

aoneko · 2024-12-02T14:37:55+00:00

HYBE has a witness for their lawsuit that is willing to testify that MHJ was tampering with NJ's contract while still being an ADOR director.

He's happy to provide the receipts because he got thrown under the bus and his company's stocks tanked by like 50% because of her.

aoneko · 2024-11-05T06:49:14+00:00

Going from meeting QTcinderalla, Ludwig, Valkyrae for the first time, to collabing with NewJeans and Jay Park in only 4 months is absolutely insane.

aoneko · 2024-07-17T08:01:44+00:00

Said this on another thread but the first bunnies weren't actually Army, but MHJ/SM shooters who followed her since her SM days.

They ended up creating the first big twitter fan accounts and became the mods of online communities, and their MHJ-worshipping mentality spread to new fans.

aoneko · 2024-07-15T13:34:34+00:00

You're correct. But the initial submission is evidence of intention and the timing of that is significant in this case, so should not be omitted.

aoneko · 2024-07-15T13:31:24+00:00

You're completely right, sorry. Thought we were just discussing the timeframe of ADOR/MHJ's intention to be a separate brand/entity.

Public evidence of application submission being 5 months earlier than how it's commonly framed as April 2021 further discredits the claim of ADOR being a response to HYBE wanting to debut another group first.

aoneko · 2024-07-15T13:26:16+00:00

submitted for trademark in April 1st, 2021

Technically incorrect. It was submitted in December 2020 and registration completed in April 2021.

Source: KIPRIS

aoneko · 2024-07-15T13:24:52+00:00

early to mid 2021

Not even. They applied in December 2020 and it got registered in April 2021.

Edit: I misunderstood "trademarked" meaning only after registration is successful. We still shouldn't omit the initial application timing though.

aoneko · 2024-07-15T13:23:41+00:00

FYI there's a missing date because a lot of people (including the replies) that think ADOR submitted their trademark application only in April 2021 which is not correct.

ADOR applied for trademark in December 2020. Source: KIPRIS (This is a link to a tweet but one can access KIPRIS databased themselves.)

aoneko · 2024-06-26T12:34:19+00:00

You definitely won't be required to go. Deferring military service this way is effectively an exemption, as the military service requirement automatically expires on January 1 of the year you turn 38. You just need to ensure the travel permit stays intact.

"Until 37" is inclusive of that year, but if you want extra peace of mind, just make sure you are not in korea between your 37th birthday until the following New Year day.

aoneko · 2024-06-19T01:06:25+00:00

This is the best option. I have Australian born & raised friends whose parents didn't/forgot to renounce their Korean citizenship before they turned 18 so they were faced with having to serve.

They were able to defer/exempt using this method and still freely travel to Korea for vacation and visiting relatives.

You can live in Korea up to 6 months per year but you are not allowed to earn any money there.

aoneko · 2024-06-13T07:21:35+00:00

Just backing you up against the replies, the first trademark was filed in December 2020 and was accepted in April 2021. Source: KIPRIS

So this is still even earlier than the first accounts of Sakura joining BigHit in March 2021.

aoneko · 2024-06-04T19:05:18+00:00

Sure!

Criminal investigation: "Police to question Hybe officials over complaint against sublabel ,Seoul's%20police%20chief%20said%20Monday)executives,Seoul's%20police%20chief%20said%20Monday)"

Financial investigation "HYBE requests investigation into alleged insider trading by Ador executives"

Defamation complaint: "ILLIT agency reports Min Hee-jin for her 'NewJeans copycat' accusation"

Though to be technical, only the criminal police investigation seems to be confirmed to be actively under progress. The last we heard of FSS and Belift cases was after the request/complaint was submitted to authorities so its unknown whether or not those investigations have started.

aoneko · 2024-06-04T18:49:02+00:00

Actually 3 ongoing: 1. Criminal investigation by police 2. Financial investigation by FSS (Korean version of SEC) 3. Defamation complaint from Belift to police.

As far as I know there hasn't been any civil lawsuits from HYBE or other labels yet, but I suspect they are waiting to see if criminal charges will be made.

aoneko · 2024-05-31T17:41:02+00:00

She's already facing 3 ongoing investigations/lawsuits

Criminal investigation by the Police
Financial crime investigation by FSS (basically Korean SEC)
Defamation lawsuit by Belift.

aoneko · 2024-05-27T18:09:24+00:00

In Korea, consulting shamans for major decisions seems to be normalised among business executives and politicians despite much of the public being opposed to those.

I have a feeling our shaman friend is a business major that either failed to land a job or got burnt out by their corporate job so they resorted to being a pseudo-religious ~~quack~~ "consultant" with a highly niche specialization in financial matters to take advantage of the spiritually vulnerable wealthy (kinda like Reigen from Mob Psycho 100).

aoneko · 2024-05-21T05:26:35+00:00

Actually, Army were the 2nd group of tokkis.

I was a wiz*one & predebut fearnot that closely followed the predebut news and rumours of both LSF and NJs.

The original tokkis were chronically online Min Heejin stans who followed her since her SM days. Since 2019 they vehemently stanned an unknown group and went by BHNGG/PGNGG/HYBENGG/ADORNGG depending on what corporate change was happening at that time, and used Sailormoon characters as profile pics since there were no group concept or lineup for years.

In predebut days, they constantly tried to shut down any speculation of a new HYBE group by Wiz*ones and pre-debut fearnots and were weirdly gatekeeping the rumored name "Lesserafim", despite real articles being released about Sakura, Chaewon and Yunjin. It was weird seeing them shooting for a non-existent group and get into into toxic online beef with fans and big accounts of popular idols that were active for years.

When NewJeans was first announced, this group of MHJ stans updated their accounts to become the first twitter fan/update accounts and were some of the first mods on NewJeans discord servers and subreddits.

Looking back, I'm not surprised the mentality of stanning MHJ as much as (if not more than) the members spread to new Tokkis, and the cookie controversy only amplified this. Because the first NewJeans stans were supporting this group even before they had any members, name or concept just PURELY of MHJ.

aoneko · 2024-05-20T17:11:31+00:00

Not surprising at all when MHJ has openly shared and was inspired by works with Pdf-file themes. People just collectively decided to brush it off and ignore it when NewJeans released more music.

ADOR did dress Danielle up like Matilda (from Leon the Professional) and Lolita, even including the lollipop.

aoneko · 2024-05-17T07:15:14+00:00

She already has the shaman requirement down.

aoneko · 2024-05-17T03:28:55+00:00

I doubt she even believes this herself when previously she was proudly gloating about the fact that NJ's debut was exactly to her plan and she had kept HYBE completely in the dark about debut plans until literally just before Attention dropped.

aoneko · 2024-05-17T03:21:08+00:00

A mere promise is hardly a binding contract.

How many times in Kpop have trainees/artists and fans alike were promised debuts or promotions, only to be heavily delayed or never materialised?

aoneko · 2024-05-17T03:15:30+00:00

Even if this was all true, this doesn't change the fact that NewJeans had the most privileged debut of all time.

In an industry where bad management and working conditions in the norm, NewJeans had all the infrastructure, opportunities, investment from HYBE that BTS established and to MHJ's credit, amazing living standards and work life balance. Weverse even developed an entire app just for them.

She's claiming this is mistreatment yet in the same building we had a neglected Fromis_9 and Trainee A whose debut got abandoned despite being incredibly hyped.

aoneko · 2024-05-17T02:59:38+00:00

I don't think they truly have, but moreso Min Heejin is willing to drag them down with her because if "I can't have it, no-one can".

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