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Singapore
Singapore gives top-level briefings to reassure foreign banks on stability
...This story has been amended to correct the name of the Singapore home affairs minister K Shanmugam...
April 21, 2024
Semiconductors
South Korean politician urges US to abandon China chip strategy
...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...
August 6, 2023
FT Live
FTWeekend Festival: U.S. edition
Where the Financial Times weekend paper comes to life
Saturday, 4 MayThe REACH, at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, F Street Northwest, Washington, DC, USA
South Korea Politics & Policy
South Korea’s ‘Luke Skywalker’ strikes blow against President Yoon
...“Cho was like the original K-pop idol, with looks, intelligence and morality on his side,” said Lee....
April 11, 2024
FT Magazine
‘We’re all maggots’: an audience with Jim Riswold, the copywriter behind some of Nike’s greatest adverts
...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...
March 9, 2024
Life & Arts
Kill your darlings — insights into the art of the editing from Oxford’s Bodleian Library
..., just before Lee’s death) into To Kill a Mockingbird....
February 16, 2024
Live news updates from February 16: Biden to speak with Xi, Swiss rule out confiscating Russian assets
Hybe nominates candidates for board of SM Entertainment as K-pop takeover battle heats up
...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....
February 16, 2023
FT Live
Business of Art
Market shifts and future growth
Monday, 7 October180 Studios, London, UK
ReviewVisual Arts
From kawaii cats to unicorns — Somerset House delves into the irresistible power of cuteness
...“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.”...
January 31, 2024
ReviewAlbums
Tyla Yaweh searches for a summer hit with Heart Full of Rage 2
...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....
August 4, 2023
South Korean business & finance
BTS agency Hybe in corporate battle over K-pop talent stream
...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...
February 16, 2023
News in-depthSouth Korean business & finance
K-pop’s movers and shakers fight to create dominant music agency
...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....
February 26, 2023
Due Diligence
JPMorgan’s Jeffrey Epstein problem Premium content
...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....
February 17, 2023
Live news updates from March 7: Powell takes a hawkish note, Ukraine denies sabotaging Nord Stream
Korea’s Kakao makes $962mn offer for bigger stake in SM Entertainment
...Kakao said the tender offer would increase its stake in the K-pop juggernaut to 40 per cent from 4.9 per cent....
March 7, 2023
Asia-Pacific equities
AI ‘euphoria’ and EV bets drive South Korea market rally
...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...
June 12, 2023
Jo Ellison
Am I too old for the next big thing?
...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....
March 10, 2023
ReviewFiction
Genre round-up — the best new debut fiction
...Lee begins with the perplexing fifth life, “Virgin Ghost on the North Korean Border”, set in 1961 and narrated by a male observer....
June 26, 2023
FT Live
Due Diligence Live
Where leaders in investment and finance meet
Tuesday, 8 OctoberLondon, UK
News in-depthInvestor activism
Activist investors smoke out South Korea’s undervalued companies
...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....
March 28, 2023
Live news updates from February 10: Russia cuts oil output, US shoots down object above Alaska
BTS manager Hybe buys 14.8% stake in rival SM as it seeks control
...SM, which manages NCT and Aespa as well as Super Junior and Girls’ Generation, is the country’s first publicly listed K-pop agency....
February 10, 2023
Moral Money
K-pop fans rally behind climate advocacy Premium content
...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...
December 14, 2022
ETF Hub
Can ‘K-pop’ deliver a global ETF hit?
...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....
October 3, 2022
Investor activism
Boom time for boardroom raiders as activism hits record highs
...The most prolific activist during the first quarter was Align Partners, a small South Korean firm founded by former private equity executive Changhwan Lee....
April 10, 2023
ReviewMusic
Made in Korea music festival sets the tills ringing with K-pop extravaganza
...Picking bras off the stage as they worked through lascivious RnB tracks — aided by female soloist Lee Hi, bringing more than a hint of Aaliyah — the two had worked the audience into a sweaty, shrieking mess...
August 3, 2022
Due Diligence
Dear Goldman Sachs investors: allow David Solomon to explain Premium content
...SM co-chief executive Lee Sung-su — the nephew of founder Lee Soo-man’s late wife — plans to step down from the K-pop juggernaut in March, he announced via video amid a battle between two of South Korea’...
February 21, 2023
Inside BusinessChristian Davies
K-pop’s big corporate showdown boosts Korean activists
...publicly traded K-pop behemoth....
May 3, 2022
BTS
Boy band BTS rattles K-pop shares by announcing temporary break
...But Lee Hye-in, an analyst at Yuanta Securities, warned that Hybe’s revenue this year was likely to be a quarter lower than previous estimates, while its profit would probably be a third lower without BTS...
June 15, 2022
InterviewSouth Korean business & finance
‘Sense of crisis’ has gripped South Korean chip industry, warns minister
...But two important bills aimed at bolstering it, known as the K-Chips Acts, are still pending in parliament....
September 27, 2022

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