The issue of similar choreography for ”NewJeans” and ”ILLIT” also comes up in the national audit of the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism... ”Preparing for copyright protection”

The choreography plagiarism controversy of the groups "NewJeans" and "ILLIT" was also brought up in the National Assembly audit. Today (7th), the National Assembly of Korea opened a National Assembly audit by the Culture, Sports and Tourism Committee.
At the event, Assemblyman Shin Dong Wook released a video titled, "New Jeans and ILLIT have the same choreography, a coincidence?"
The video showed examples of choreography from NewJeans' "Attention," "Ditto," and "OMG."
The allegations of similarity in the group's choreography began when conflict between HYBE and Min Hee Jin, former CEO of ADOR, came to light.
Former CEO Min Hee Jin was in charge of hair, makeup, and clothing for HYBE's "ILLIT" and "NewJeans."
After a video showing the two groups' similar choreography became a hot topic among internet users, some of the choreographers of "NewJeans" and the two groups' choreographers started to make comments about the similarity of their outfits and choreography.
Performance directors posted on social media, "Isn't this too much of a coincidence?" and "For someone's hardships to be revealed like this, the process of going through it must have been far from easy."
"I thought so," he wrote, expressing his displeasure.
LAB's explanation for the plagiarism was about 28 minutes long, including interviews with choreographers from "ILLIT"
They also made and released a video and filed a lawsuit against former CEO Min Hee Jin for defamation.
The audit mentioned Shin Dong Wook, a member of the National Assembly, raised the issue of copyrights for the two groups' choreography, to which Jeong Hyang-mi, director of the Copyright Bureau at the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, responded, "The choreography is not copyrighted.
Regarding the copyright of choreography, the opinions of the related parties were collected," he said, explaining the progress of the project. According to this, a comprehensive guideline for choreography copyright will be created by the end of the year, and the creators of choreography will be able to
He also said that rather than being legally binding like music copyrights, the law is being handled from the perspective of copyright interpretation.
"Rather than regulating it, we are considering a guideline to manage it softly," he said. Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism Yoo In-cheon said that protecting the creative rights of choreography is the core of K-culture.
He added, "I have been interested in the choreography (copyright) since the beginning of the year, and am currently making preparations to somehow protect it."