Police Dismiss Min Hee Jin Complaint Against Labor Investigators

Police have dismissed a criminal complaint filed by Min Hee Jin against labor officials who investigated a workplace harassment case involving the former ADOR executive, closing one track of a dispute that has drawn sustained attention across the K-pop industry.

According to reporting cited by KpopStarz, Mapo Police Station decided not to refer officials from the Seoul Western Branch of the Seoul Regional Employment and Labor Office to prosecutors. The decision, reportedly made on February 6 and later reported publicly, means investigators did not find enough evidence to support criminal charges over the way the labor office documented and handled the case.

Min, who previously led ADOR and is now described in the report as CEO of OOAK Records, filed the complaint in 2025 after challenging the labor office’s handling of a workplace harassment investigation. Her complaint accused officials of falsifying official documents, using falsified records, and neglecting their duties during the review of allegations connected to her conduct and the conduct of another executive.

What Min Hee Jin Challenged

At the center of Min’s complaint were claims about how investigators recorded KakaoTalk group chat messages and related evidence. She argued that timestamps and message sequences were entered in a way that made separate messages appear consecutive, creating what she characterized as inaccurate official records. Min also maintained that she was not given enough opportunity to answer each allegation during the labor investigation.

The workplace case itself began in August 2024, when a former ADOR employee, identified only as “A” in reports, filed a complaint with labor authorities. The employee alleged workplace harassment by Min and also raised allegations involving another executive, identified as “B.” The complaint further claimed that Min defended the executive and did not conduct an impartial internal review after the matter was reported.

Labor authorities later concluded that some of Min’s remarks could have caused physical or psychological distress and worsened the workplace environment. They also found that she had failed to carry out an objective investigation as an employer, resulting in an administrative fine. Min’s criminal complaint against the labor officials was a separate response to how that process was conducted.

Police Saw Errors, Not Criminal Intent

The police review did not entirely deny that mistakes appeared in the labor office’s records. However, investigators concluded that the issues were clerical or contextual errors rather than deliberate fabrication. In particular, the police found no evidence that officials invented statements, inserted claims Min had never made, or intentionally altered the substance of the investigation.

That distinction is important. Administrative records can contain mistakes without meeting the legal threshold for criminal conduct. In this case, police reportedly determined that timestamp problems and other inaccuracies did not amount to falsification of official documents or dereliction of duty under the standards needed to move the complaint toward prosecution.

Investigators also rejected Min’s argument that she had been denied a meaningful chance to defend herself. Police said they reviewed written submissions from her legal representatives and found that labor officials had categorized and assessed the allegations before reaching their conclusion. That finding weakens the claim that the investigation process was procedurally unfair in a criminally punishable way.

Why The Decision Matters

The dismissal does not erase the broader controversy around ADOR, HYBE, and Min’s public legal battles, but it does narrow one specific avenue of dispute. The police decision leaves the labor office’s handling of the case intact from a criminal-law perspective, even as public debate over workplace culture, executive accountability, and internal investigations in entertainment agencies continues.

For K-pop observers, the case is another example of how management disputes now unfold across multiple forums at once: labor offices, police complaints, civil litigation, public statements, and fan communities. Each decision may resolve only one narrow question, while the reputational consequences remain much wider and harder to contain.

Min has long been one of the industry’s most closely watched executives, and any development connected to ADOR or HYBE tends to move quickly through entertainment media. This police decision is less dramatic than a new lawsuit or press conference, but it is still significant because it clarifies how authorities viewed her accusations against the labor investigators themselves.

The practical result is that the complaint against the officials will not proceed as a criminal case unless a new legal step changes that outcome. For now, the record stands as a police finding that the documented errors did not show criminal wrongdoing.