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...Cho went on to be a star professor at the country’s most prestigious university. “Cho was like the original K-pop idol, with looks, intelligence and morality on his side,” said Lee....
...Here, designer Cho Myung Hee reimagines the ruins of Troy as a curving space, backed by a giant window, dominated by a swooping structure like a modernist bus shelter, and splashed with starry projections...
...“This is like if Real Madrid tried to buy Manchester United, then at the last minute Manchester City decided to throw its hat into the ring,” said Bernie Cho, president of DFSB Kollective, a digital media...
...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....
...“As sexy and slick as K-pop videos are, it’s actually something as mundane as the metadata that really set them apart [from other foreign language competitors],” says Cho....
...K-pop. K-beauty. K-drama....
...One commenter writes on the Twins Talk K-pop site, “BTS know how much influence they have, it’s nice to get more personal patronage. For stuff they like....
...Korean society has been further rocked in the past few months by the suicides of two prominent K-pop stars in their twenties, both the victims of vicious misogynistic attacks online, as well as rape convictions...
...Ahead of the Moon-Kim summit, Seoul has invited the North to take part in high-level talks next week with South Korean unification minister Cho Myung-gyun, an official from Mr Moon’s presidential office...
...“K-pop” singers are mobbed at airports from Tokyo to Bangkok, while sales of the country’s TV soap operas are expanding into markets in the Middle East and Latin America....
...And K-pop has done wonders for business,” he adds, referring to the overseas success of South Korea’s music industry....
...“There’s, um, [comedian] Margaret Cho,” she says. “Then there’s that guy who heads Dartmouth College, what’s his name?” Jim Yong Kim, now president of the World Bank? “Yes, that’s the one.”...
...Cho Hyun-jin, a government representative who coined the phrase K-Pop for Korean bands in a previous incarnation as a journalist, said the spread of Korean music had surpassed his highest hopes....
...He reflects on that first kiss with Cho Chang, and wishes it had led to something more. I’m sure J.K. Rowling has it in her to write the definitive novel of mid-life crisis....
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