HYBEBang Si Hyuk and former ADOR CEO Min Heejin have a secret meeting in China... I wonder what's going on...

A man and a woman, believed to be HYBE chairman Pan Si Hyuk and Min Hee Jin, former head of HYBE-owned label ADOR, were caught walking together in Shanghai, China, attracting interest. It turned out that this was a Halloween costume by a Chinese couple.

　On the 29th, several photos were posted and spread in online communities in South Korea under the title ‘Min Hee Jin and Pang Si Hyuk spotted in China’.

　The photos showed a Chinese couple cosplaying Chairman Pang Si-hyuk and former Representative Min Hee-jin, who have recently become a hot topic in the K-pop world due to their confrontations on all kinds of issues.

　The woman wore a blue baseball cap with LA written on it, a green striped T-shirt and her long hair tied back on both sides, mimicking the outfit and hairstyle worn by former representative Min Hee-jin at a press conference in April this year.

　The man reproduced the outfit that Chairman Pang Si-hyeok wore when he was caught in the USA in August this year. He wore an indigo T-shirt, beige trousers and sunglasses to complete Pang Si-hyuk's US fashion.

　The two also added more realism by adding a media logo under the photo in the style of a certain Korean domestic entertainment media outlet that caught the pair in a secret meeting.

　Netizens in South Korea who saw the photo responded with amusing responses, such as "It's funny that they added the logo", "Once again, I think the ripple effect of K-POP is outrageous" and "I thought it was real".

　It was revealed that this photo was posted by a Chinese man who is active on Xiao Hong Shu (RED), the Chinese version of Instagram.

　The man posted on this SNS on the 28th, Min Hee Jin and Pang Si Hyuk's secret meeting abroad. The video shows them in cosplay with the comment, ‘Sorry I ad-libbed’.

　The video shows that they had dressed up in these costumes the day before and had come across Korean tourists walking along the streets of Shanghai. The Korean tourist asked, "Are you from Korea?" and the woman who was with them immediately replied in fluent Korean "No. I was a foreign student. I was a foreign student." The woman had studied in South Korea and was probably familiar with K-pop culture.

　The man also said that when his cosplay became a topic of conversation in South Korea, he "saw it posted on Instagram [on his Korean account]" and that "my Korean friends also sent me messages."

　Meanwhile, former representative Min Hee Jin filed an application for a provisional injunction against ADOR's parent company HYBE, requesting that he be reappointed as representative director, but the court dismissed the application on the 29th and his return as representative was unsuccessful.

　The HYBE side stated, "Thanks to the court's wise decision, HYBE will do its best to normalise ADOR, upgrade the multi-labels and support artists’ activities with this decision."