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...Tonight, we’ll be tuning into President Joe Biden’s State of the Union speech, where he will try to woo voters with his administration’s accomplishments ahead of another election against Donald Trump....
...Of those, 27 now allow English-speaking visitors to stay the night under the “templestay” programme, delivering a dose of authentic culture in a country better known for its K-pop and K-dramas than its traditions...
...Analysts estimate that Hybe and SM together would account for two-thirds of K-pop album and digital music sales....
...Instead of costly ambassador contracts, often in the seven-figure region, the 242-year-old brand has built “friendships” for tactical activities with K-pop singers Nayeon, Krystal Jung and Cha Eun-Woo and...
...For years, technology companies sought to woo senior staff from traditional industries, offering them both the opportunity of a leading role in the future of technology and highly competitive pay....
...“The IPO success vindicates the importance of music IPs and our company’s growth prospects,” RBW’s president Kim Jin-woo told the Financial Times....
...Webtoons, comic strips that are designed to be read on a smartphone, are South Korea’s latest cultural export to break out of Asia after the global success of K-pop superstars BTS and Netflix sensation Squid...
...“You look at all of the criticisms of the so-called sissy boys, the closing down of the K-pop fan clubs, closing down of tutoring services that taught English, English not included in school final exams...
...“We are no longer doing business with just China and Japan in mind,” said Kim Jin-woo, RBW president. “Instead, we are now looking at the global market.”...
...In South Korea, where K-Pop and K-Fashion rule, the country’s love of another type of accessory — foreign handbags — seems to have overshadowed homegrown products....
...The winner of the country’s first democratic presidential election in 1987, army general Roh Tae-woo, was jailed during the presidency of his conservative successor on bribery, mutiny and treason charges...
...Smart reads Setting the stage From K-Pop megastars to Netflix’s record-shattering show Squid Game, South Korea is churning out content gold at a record pace....
...At the same time, South Korea is enjoying growing global recognition of its cultural exports such as the K-pop band BTS and the breakthrough film Parasite....
...Cold-shouldering the European leaders yet again over the Iran nuclear deal, Trump instead heads for Saudi Arabia to woo the sheikhs and the leaders of the Muslim world....
...Consumption of foreign media inside North Korea — including South Korean-made dramas and K-pop smuggled in from China — has fallen under renewed levels of scrutiny....
...Scores of agencies built the K-pop industry centred around this trainee system....
...That success is partially due to the fact that they can woo investors with future projections that to some may seem like a pipe dream....
...He joins from K & L Gates. Arnold & Porter recruited Maja Zerjal Fink as a partner in the law firm’s bankruptcy and restructuring practice in New York. She joins from Proskauer Rose....
...“It is still not easy to woo ordinary men into using cosmetics but their brand loyalty is high once they become your customers,” said Hellen Choo, the company’s chief executive....
...Law firm Proskauer has added James Lee and Jae Woo Park to its M&A practice in New York. They both join from K&L Gates....
...The ex-Soviet state is also hoping “industrial tourism” — and Europe’s heaviest surviving wild animals — will woo visitors....
...Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati has hired Wanda Woo as a partner in the law firm’s corporate and securities practice in Hong Kong. Woo was previously a partner at Kirkland & Ellis....
...Hollywood’s desire to woo Chinese and other global audiences has led the industry to rely on comic book and action franchises — something Gao sees as an “inevitable compromise”....
...The next year, K Wah Construction acquired 97.9 per cent of Galaxy Casino from the Luis in a HK$18.4bn deal, taking the new name Galaxy Entertainment Group....
...We passed through towns and villages — Abingdon, Shillingford, Benson, Wallingford, Goring, Marlow — with charming old waterfronts. The meadows metamorphosed into the Chiltern Hills....
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