A member of the popular K-pop group NewJeans has testified in the country’s parliament over alleged bullying in the workplace.
Hanni spoke in front of South Korea’s National Assembly on Tuesday. Her situation has been closely followed by media both at home and abroad.
Last month, she complained in a livestream that when she greeted members of another group at the workplace, who had reportedly been told to ignore her by their manager.
In response, the assembly’s Environment and Labor Committee summoned the artist and the representative of her group’s management company.
Hanni said in tears that she could not understand why she had to endure such treatment. She went on to say that she does not want anyone else to go through similar experiences.
She also insisted that the group’s management firm has failed to make its best efforts to find out what really happened.
But the agency representative said both sides’ claims are contradictory as far as internal investigations have discovered. But the representative added she will make efforts to find out the truth although the evidence remains inconclusive.