Ex-BigHit Employee Who Exposed Company Hits Back At Hate From A “Certain Fandom”

Elly Chae Eun, a former BigHit employee who was let go in 2017, had recently gone viral for her various exposés on the company. She had mentioned BTS in one of her exposés. Although she had nothing but praise for them, it seems like some still took it negatively.

I sincerely congratulated the BTS members when they were given shares and became wealthy. They absolutely deserved everything they achieved — those seven were the beginning of HYBE itself. But the ones who later swooped in and devoured shareholders’ stocks at cheap prices, who went behind people’s backs… people who played golf with corporate cards, lounged in luxury rooms, drank alcohol — they are the real evil ones.

— Elly Chae Eun

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Due to the malicious comments she received, Elly hit back at “a certain fandom” for their actions.

“[The Victim]

I’m the one who was wronged and who suffered harm,
I rarely even talk about BTS on purpose,
so why are some fans coming to my thread to curse me out and cause a scene?

Even when I was kicked out of the company, I stayed quiet and lived in the shadows for years because I didn’t want any harm to come to the artists.
I truly wished for their success, hoped they could make the music they wanted, and last for a long time.
So please, don’t try to romanticize or sugarcoat the wrongdoings committed by the company.”

She also suspected that the company might have been behind some of the nasty work on community sites, seeing that some of the claims about her being spread online were similar to what the company tried to claim in their firing documents.

“I have a recording file.
It seems some hate comments and slander about me are being posted in certain fandom communities.
If I had actually been incompetent or had a clear reason to be fired, they should’ve just fired me. But they couldn’t — because they had no justifiable cause.

For example, claims like I messed up the music video upload or had personal meetings with the members?
There’s no evidence and the stories don’t even make sense. These claims are almost identical to what the company submitted in their legal documents. As for the music video — the reason it was delayed was because he was obsessed with editing and sent it too late, and it got delayed during YouTube encoding.
The staff on our upload team did their best and handled it as quickly as possible the moment they received it.

Personal meetings with the artists? What, are the members insane? Why would they have meals and tea with a middle-aged woman? This kind of laughable defamation — borderline libel — was actually included in the company’s court documents, written by multiple former senior judges-turned-lawyers they hired. That says it all.

The company had no recordings or real evidence, so they just filled the documents with gossip and baseless rumors.
So don’t worry. What’s being posted in those online communities? All lies.”

Last but not least, Elly Chae Eun claimed that although she had been fired, the company continued to ask her for her services, and asked that she work as a contract employee for them for a year after she had been fired as an official employee.

You can read more on the original claims from her below. Elly Chae Eun hints that the company fired her due to the higher-ups being upset that she was not politically aligned with them, and more.

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