Is HYBE truly irredeemable?

The only way to redeem hybe:

Fire entire hybe board and make MHJ the undisputed empress of the whole corporation

They'll be fine internationally. In SK maybe they'll get back in the right track, but who knows, for now LSRFM and Illit suffered bc of their image. Time will tell.

These companies can join ISIS and drop nuclear bomb and they would still find a way to redeem themselves.

dissolution NOW

They need to be purged like Blizzard Entertainment was after their villain arc concluded.

(pity bump)

I mean as long as they make money for their shareholders

they'll be fine

if not then we have a problem

Nope, as long as they still have active popular groups with big fanbases they will be fine. Not to say there won't be controversy in the future but it's not like their a mid tier company. Their apart of the big 4. I mean look at YG their own CEO is a criminal and their still fine.

Nothing is gonna happen to them

Bc the topic on hand it's miniscule

Yg survives burning sun, that was actually a important issue involving actually human life's

Groups are disposable, and so will be nj and hybe will keep debuting more and more groups

Didn't YG have more dirt on their name?

I don't think company image matters too much because time will heal their current wounds. They just need to make good music and groups, and a lot of this mess will be brushed aside. Both YG and SM did shady things in the past, and that didn't stop them from having the biggest groups in kpop

in 2025 and 2026 BTS will make a shit ton of money for them so they will be fine

Bigger companies doing worse shit stayed afloat.

The whole ugly "too big to fail" thing probably applies.

No, I doubt it. Yeah YG got away with burning sun and SM also did with tons of illegal shit and mistreated their idols but these companies had already built a reputation for themselves, decades in the industry made them irreplaceable. That's why yg having zero trendy artists in their company is still making noise, these companies had connections and good relations with politicians. But hybe? They have no strong foundation, they're just a bunch of wealthy gamming ceos investing the money they made through BTS, there's no direction at all. Once that flow of money stops, they're done.