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...In 2019, Choi’s company Jin Semiconductor established a presence in Beijing....
...Events: In South Korea, the trial begins of former Samsung executive Choi Jin-seok, accused of stealing sensitive information to help set up a chip factory in China....
...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....
...Yi So-yeon is formidable as Cassandra and Choi Ho-Sung’s self-pitying Menelaus provides comic relief. The eight-strong all-female chorus captivates, too....
...Yoojin Choi was co-curator of “Hallyu!...
...Jin, the group’s oldest member, began his service in December and other members are also expected to follow him over the next couple of years....
...From star to suspect Choi Jin-seok was once a star of the Korean semiconductor industry who held executive positions at the country’s two leading memory chip producers....
...Attendees include US president Joe Biden Wednesday South Korea: trial begins of former Samsung chip executive Choi Jin-seok accused of corporate espionage, stealing sensitive information to help his client...
...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...
...Chips spy: Once called a “master of semiconductor yield”, Choi Jin-seok now faces possible jail time after being accused of stealing Samsung’s technology to build a copycat chip plant in China....
...SM, which manages NCT and Aespa as well as Super Junior and Girls’ Generation, is the country’s first publicly listed K-pop agency....
...She is bringing works by more than 30 contemporary South Korean artists to London, including Na Ri Choi, Ha Jin Lee and Sung Hee Kim. “The artists do not pay to participate....
...The super group was instrumental in taking K-pop to a global audience with catchy melodies and slick dance routines....
...Its oldest member Jin, 29, is expected to sign up this year unless a related law is revised to allow an exemption....
...“One of our key strengths has been our relationship with K-pop companies,” said Kang....
...But two important bills aimed at bolstering it, known as the K-Chips Acts, are still pending in parliament....
...“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....
...It operates a licensing model, forming partnerships with luxury fashion brands and leading K-pop agencies....
...In the wake of K-pop and the Korean Wave in general, the country is trying to see if K-art can be the next big global draw....
...“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.”...
...But Yoon Hyuk-jin, an analyst at SK Securities, said the group still “needs to invest more in upstream projects to boost its supply chain stability”....
...In a voting bulletin, BlackRock applauded Samsung for adding to its board Wha-Jin Han, South Korea’s former environmental secretary....
...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...
...Other successful assassinations include Choi Duk-keun, a South Korean diplomat killed in Vladivostok in 1996, and Yi Han Yong, nephew of late leader Kim Jong Il, who was shot dead in Seoul a year later....
...Kang Yu-jin*, another victim, was forced to quit her job and move house after a former partner published private photos alongside identifiable details including her home and office addresses....
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