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The deadline for the judgment of a damage suit filed by Source Music against Min Hee-jin, former CEO of Airdore, has been delayed.
Originally, the 12th Civil Affairs Department of the Seoul Western District Court was scheduled to be sentenced on the 16th for a 500 million won damages lawsuit filed by Source Music against former CEO Min.
However, the argument resumed again when Source Music applied for a witness after submitting an application for the resumption of the argument on the 7th. The resumption of the pleading is a procedure that takes place when the court judges that additional arguments or evidence investigations are needed just before sentencing. The hearing date is expected to proceed again in March.
Source Music filed a 500 million won lawsuit against former CEO Min in July last year. The key issue came from former CEO Min's claim at a press conference held in April last year that "he casted the members of New Jeans himself, and Hive unilaterally broke his promise to debut in a girl group for the first time." Source Music filed a lawsuit alleging that the remarks were actually timely, which damaged the reputation of Source Music and its artists.
During the previous trial, Source Music said, "The problem is not an individual expression, but the overall context of the press conference remarks," adding, "It is illegal to make even irrelevant third-party artists perceived negatively due to private conflicts between shareholders." In particular, he has repeatedly emphasized that the social evaluation of his singers, including Le Seraphim, has been undermined.
In response, former representative Min countered that the press conference was "an inevitable response to Hive's audit and unilateral media response." It is unfair to judge only some remarks as defamation, and the expression "Yangachi" is also an expression that points out problems in the establishment process, not an insult aimed at a specific person.
As the argument begins again ahead of the ruling, attention is being paid to what new arguments will come out through witnesses applied by Source Music and how they will affect the ruling.
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