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...This story has been amended to correct the name of the Singapore home affairs minister K Shanmugam...
...Lee Jae-myung, the leader of South Korea’s leftwing opposition Democratic party, has accused the conservative government of harming the country’s economic and security interests by siding too closely with...
...“Cho was like the original K-pop idol, with looks, intelligence and morality on his side,” said Lee....
...Putting the filmmaker Spike Lee in front of the camera alongside basketball star Michael Jordan, for example, came to Riswold and his producer when they noticed Lee’s character in She’s Gotta Have It refused...
...Eric Lee, director of the museum, describes his institution as “very fortunate” to have the work....
..., just before Lee’s death) into To Kill a Mockingbird....
...Hybe, the South Korean music agency behind global superstars BTS, has nominated its own staff as candidates for the board of SM Entertainment, as a battle to take over the K-pop juggernaut heats up....
...“I took references from TikTok trends, K-pop idols, role-playing, and ‘VTubers’ [who live-stream as digital avatars]. It provides a very rich palette to play with.”...
...Translated and dramatised by Kent from Jean-Claude Grumberg’s bestselling 2019 French novella, it combines the cosiness of a fireside story with the horrors of the Nazi death camps....
...Since then, the sweet-voiced, intricately inked Yaweh has been taking flight on his own terms, releasing a flurry of tracks, remixes and collaborations with acts that span hip hop to K-pop....
...Last week, Lee Soo-man and Hybe chair Bang Si-hyuk issued a joint statement promising to grow both companies so as to “enhance K-pop’s global competitiveness” and to pursue Lee’s vision of establishing K-pop...
...Market leader Hybe, the company behind megastar boy band BTS, last week bought 15 per cent of its main rival SM Entertainment from the country’s best-known K-pop impresario, SM founder Lee Soo-man....
...On Thursday, Hybe proposed seven new candidates for SM’s board of directors, amid longstanding shareholder concerns about Lee Soo-man’s influence over the K-pop agency....
...In 2024, Friedman Benda will unveil a lofty space in the Marais that once sold Lee jeans, just a short walk from the Centre Pompidou....
...Besides showcasing culinary talents ranging from London’s Jeremy Lee (he of beloved Soho stalwart, Quo Vadis) to José Pizarro and the Sydney-based Lennox Hastie (who polished his wood-fire cooking skills...
...Kakao said the tender offer would increase its stake in the K-pop juggernaut to 40 per cent from 4.9 per cent....
...Shares of the country’s four biggest K-pop agencies — Hybe, SM Entertainment, YG Entertainment, JYP Entertainment — have all gone up by at least a third this year, double the Kospi’s advance and outperforming...
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...I discovered that this baby-faced front row idol was Lee Tae-yong, or Taeyong, the South Korean rapper, singer and songwriter and leader of the K-pop boy band NCT....
...Lee begins with the perplexing fifth life, “Virgin Ghost on the North Korean Border”, set in 1961 and narrated by a male observer....
...Align scored a decisive victory over K-pop agency SM Entertainment’s founder and then controlling shareholder at the annual meeting in March last year....
...SM, which manages NCT and Aespa as well as Super Junior and Girls’ Generation, is the country’s first publicly listed K-pop agency....
...streaming platforms “lag behind in comparison to other global music streaming services, such as Apple Music which has already achieved 100 per cent renewables,” 20-year-old campaigner at Kpop4planet Da-yeon Lee...
...Lee argues the timing is right. He points to the international success of K-Pop bands such as BTS, which was the top-selling act in the world last year, and Blackpink....
...The most prolific activist during the first quarter was Align Partners, a small South Korean firm founded by former private equity executive Changhwan Lee....
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