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...“Min Hee-jin is the most important creative force in the entire K-pop industry,” said Kim Young-dae, a Korean pop culture critic....
...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....
...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....
...SM, which manages NCT and Aespa as well as Super Junior and Girls’ Generation, is the country’s first publicly listed K-pop agency....
...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....
...But two important bills aimed at bolstering it, known as the K-Chips Acts, are still pending in parliament....
...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....
...“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...
...In a voting bulletin, BlackRock applauded Samsung for adding to its board Wha-Jin Han, South Korea’s former environmental secretary....
...“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.”...
...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....
...“The price range looks expensive relative to its earnings and compared with its rivals,” said Lee Jin-man, an analyst at SK Securities....
...“It is certainly a positive signal for Korean game makers and entertainment firms as China is a very important market for them,” said Lee Jin-man, an analyst at SK Securities....
...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....
...Shares in Big Hit Entertainment, the music agency behind K-pop superstars BTS, surged on their stock market debut as retail investors flocked to South Korea’s largest initial public offering in three years...
...Jin, the oldest member of BTS, turns 28 — the latest date by which he can enter — in December. The youngest, Jungkook, is five years his junior....
...Lee Jin-man, an analyst at Seoul brokerage SK Securities, says that alongside companies developing electric car battery technology and new pharmaceutical treatments, entertainment groups like Big Hit are...
...Despite strong recent performances and a rosy near-term outlook for gaming stocks, Lee Jin-man, an analyst at SK Securities, was wary about the unbridled optimism on display....
...The scandals come against the backdrop of the rapid rise of South Korean music and culture, or K-pop, on the global stage....
...K-pop has never been more popular....
...Three are rappers (J-Hope, RM, Suga), four are singers (Jimin, Jin, Jungkook, V)....
...Husband and wife Do Won and Jin Sook Chang named their retail empire Forever 21 because they thought it was the most enviable age but few would want to find themselves in their shoes....
...The group’s members consist of three rappers (RM, Suga, J-Hope) and four singers (Jin, Jimin, V, Jungkook)....
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