Ex-ADOR employee in sexual harassment case slams CEO's statement

The female former ADOR employee who filed a sexual harassment case lashed out at CEO Min Hee-jin over her rebuttal statement on Tuesday.

ADOR CEO Min Hee-jin [YONHAP]

The female former ADOR employee who filed a sexual harassment case earlier this year said Thursday that she expects “to see Min Hee-jin in court.”

The employee posted on her Instagram that all she expected was for the ADOR CEO to correct the misinformation and to apologize, but that she was “sincerely outraged by the continuous defamatory statements.”

“Min hasn’t responded to any of her violations of neutrality as CEO, profanity or deception and instead made selective clarifications, clouding the real issue here by only mentioning underperformance and a salary reduction, which is exactly what I had expected,” she said in the post.

This follows reports since last month stating that Min had sided with a male executive in a sexual harassment case filed by the former employee in March of this year. The employee has since resigned and has alleged that Min had “berated” her, which the CEO actively denied.

In the latest statement, the employee refuted four claims from Min’s 18-page statement that was released on Tuesday night.

The employee first emphasized again that Min was not a neutral mediator and that the fact that the harassment complaint was closed by ADOR without any suspension was only possible as it was “the CEO’s duty and responsibility.”

“Min is legally and procedurally the only person who can take final disciplinary action,” the employee said. She asked that Min clarify how the male executive had worked “discreetly” to clear his name and Min’s “biased behavior” in even “refusing to give a warning to the perpetrator.”

Regarding Min’s denials the sexual harassment ever took place, the employee said that she had “enough evidence” with the seven reports on workplace bullying and one report on sexual harassment that were filed.

“The male executive had already apologized on the sexual harassment matter in private KakaoTalk messages with the CEO,” she said. She said she has forwarded 11 additional reports and related documents to HYBE after the company said it would reinvestigate the case.

The fact that Min publicly disclosed the employee’s salary and had cut 40 percent of it are all “illegal acts,” the employee added. “Revealing all of this without my consent is against the law.”

She also slammed another assertion by Min that the employee was inept despite having seven years of career experience. “Everyone who’s worked with me for one month except for the male executive evaluated me as ‘highly recommended’ and ‘recommended.’ I don’t understand why Min is lying when there’s proof on paper.”

In Min’s Tuesday statement, the CEO said she was “suspicious” that HYBE was involved in this conflict “for the purpose of grabbing at straws to remove me from the company.”

“It’s ridiculous how I have been forcibly dragged into this controversy despite not having anything to do with it,” Min said. “It’s strange that it’s coinciding with a time in which HYBE is being heavily criticized by the media. I find it odd how the former employee just randomly emerged and demanded a public apology from me and not the perpetrator that she is blaming, when I was the one who was mediating the situation.”

BY SHIN MIN-HEE [shin.minhee@joongang.co.kr]