{"id":311737,"date":"2026-02-26T19:19:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T19:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/311737\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T19:19:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T19:19:10","slug":"the-man-beside-min-hee-jin-newjeans-choreographer-black-q-draws-attention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/311737\/","title":{"rendered":"The man beside Min Hee-jin: NewJeans choreographer Black Q draws attention"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/cdd38d62-9a08-4796-b4dc-ccb010621264.jpg\" style=\"height: auto; aspect-ratio: 550 \/ 400; width: 100%; display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto\" alt=\"Min Hee-jin, left, and Black Q \/ Xportsnews, captured from social media\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Min Hee-jin, left, and Black Q \/ Xportsnews, captured from social media<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">The identity of the man who stood beside former Ador CEO Min Hee-jin at her recent press conference has sparked online interest \u2014 and fans quickly identified him as Black Q, the choreographer widely known as a key creative force behind K-pop group NewJeans.<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">Min, now head of the newly launched label Ooak Records, held a press conference in Seoul on Wednesday to announce her legal victory in a stock payment lawsuit and outline future plans. <\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">During the brief appearance, she read a prepared statement proposing that she would forgo the 25.6 billion won ($19.2 million) awarded in the ruling if HYBE agreed to halt all ongoing legal disputes with her.<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">She entered, read the statement in under 10 minutes without taking questions and exited \u2014 but attention shifted to the man who escorted and assisted her offstage. He was later identified as choreographer Black Q (Kim Young-hoo).<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/6840335a-d427-4d7a-accc-7d263ef1e041.jpg\" style=\"height: auto; aspect-ratio: 550 \/ 821; width: 100%; display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto\" alt=\"Black Q \/ Captured from his social media\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Black Q \/ Captured from his social media<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">\u2018Father of NewJeans\u2019 choreography<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">Black Q gained public recognition in 2022 through Mnet\u2019s dance competition show \u201cStreet Man Fighter\u201d as part of the crew Eoddae. He later worked as a performance director at Ador, where he created choreography for several of NewJeans\u2019 signature songs including \u201cCookie,\u201d \u201cOMG\u201d and \u201cSuper Shy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">Because he choreographed most of the group\u2019s routines, fans often dubbed him the \u201cfather of NewJeans.\u201d His presence beside Min at the press event fueled speculation that he is closely aligned with her amid the ongoing dispute between Min and HYBE, the parent company of Ador.<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">More recently, Black Q added the official OoaK Records account \u2014 Min\u2019s new label \u2014 to his social media profile, signaling his affiliation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">This article from Xportsnews is adapted by a generative AI system and edited by The Korea Times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Min Hee-jin, left, and Black Q \/ Xportsnews, captured from social media The identity of the man who&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":311738,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[146,85,46,409],"class_list":["post-311737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311737\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/311738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}