Trainee A was formed under BigHit and the public was made aware of them in 2021 when the trainees started promoting themselves online
BigHit heavily implied that the boys will debut in 2022. Even kpop prediction sites that use information gathered from kpop companies themselves predicted BigHit to debut a boy group in 2022
However by December 2022, all of Trainee A’s social medias were shut down and the group was disbanded. One by one the trainees save for Jihoon and possibly James all left Hybe as trainees
Now in 2024, Ador’s CEO Min Hee Jin has been asked to resign by Hybe and they have started an investigation on her and her Vice President for allegedly leaking company secrets, idols and trainees private info and a bunch of other things.
Korean media is now looking into her history with hybe and how this whole mess started in the first place.
here’s the summary:
Min Hee Jin joins Hybe in 2019 and they announce she will be making her own girl group in collaboration with Source Music. Allegedly her and Source’s CEO had creative differences and she wanted to be in charge of her own agency.
Hybe created Ador for her and she took Source’s staffs and trainees with her over to Ador allegedly leaving Source to pay off all of their trainees’ debt
Apparently Bang PD and BigHit decided to help out Source and transferred a lot of their employees over to Source to help them get back on their feet. This includes managers, creative directors, etc.
This all happened around 2021 which is when Trainee A just got revealed to the public. At the same time as BigHit was training TA, Bang PD and Source started scouting for a new source music girl group
My theory is that due to BigHit suddenly loosing staff they did not have enough employees to handle BTS, TXT and Trainee A all at the same time. Plus with Bang PD being busy helping Source out with their new group he couldn’t focus his attention on TA and their debut
This is most likely why Trainee A was disbanded so suddenly. BigHit did not expect Hee Jin to pull such a stunt. TA had a huge hiatus before BigHit decided to end the project. The hiatus was most likely due to BigHit reorganizing their staff and in the end they decided that they could not afford to debut TA
with all this hybe x ador allegations coming out i think i’m starting to piece together why trainee a was so quickly disbanded dispite bighit knowing they have another powerful boy group on their hands 👀 should i talk about my theories??
A fan who followed Jihoon since TA met him at TWS’ fansign posted a video of their interaction on Twitter
OP told him that she followed jihoon from when he was in Trainee A. Then op said that Trainee A has a dark feel of hiphop, when op first heard that jihoon would join TWS, op wondered how jihoon would be but was surprised that this really suited jihoon.
jihoon kept saying 'wow, but when i came, i thought "oh, what can i do?" and actually i'm scared i thought if i went and (couldn't) it would be troublesome and i would have to give up but then i thought if i did it without giving up, i would grow bigger'
Op then replied “you look so cool and look so pretty when you smile on stage, so don’t worry”
Q. Who do you want to record a dance challenge with?
YORCH: TWS Jihoon! We haven’t seen each other for a long time, so I want to talk, see him again and congratulate him but since he just debuted, we have no time (Jihoon is busy), but if we had time….