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...The US group “is an attempt to globalise and localise K-pop’s methodology”, said Park....
...The concrete evokes the Brutalist architecture of the former Yugoslavia, where Draga Obradovic grew up, while the glossy resin, says her husband, Aurel K Basedow, has a “jewellery aspect” that provides a...
...Having slept in a park and not wishing to repeat the experience, we decided to go door to door, seeking help....
...But the leads are hugely personable, with a briskly affecting spiky-sisterly interplay between Park and Cola....
...It could be K-pop or Beyoncé; it’s like an off-the-cuff street dance-off. Nearby, I’m a fan of Labelhood....
...The funds supermarket posted pre-tax profits of £403mn in the 12 months to the end of June on Tuesday, beating analysts’ consensus, as customers opted to park money in cash amid a cost of living crisis and...
...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...
...Analysts estimate that Hybe and SM together would account for two-thirds of K-pop album and digital music sales....
...Of those, 27 now allow English-speaking visitors to stay the night under the “templestay” programme, delivering a dose of authentic culture in a country better known for its K-pop and K-dramas than its traditions...
...Its new factory, commissioned this year, is set to produce 5mn “K-briqs” a year....
...‘Mr K-Pop’: a music showdown heats up in South Korea The battle for control of K-pop juggernaut SM Entertainment is getting uglier by the day....
...Chinese manufacturers “have improved their technology as they rolled out a stream of foldables in their home market”, said Jene Park, a senior analyst at Counterpoint Research....
...(C&K, by the way, rescued themselves in my esteem when they later opened Zédel, on a truly democratic brasserie model.)...
...“More efforts to protect your producers lead to responses, which just increases barriers to trade and the cost for trade,” said Albert Park, chief economist at the Asian Development Bank....
...“For f**k’s sake, we’ll all be dead [by then],” he fumed. Metrolink hopes it will be operation in the early 2030s, dependent on usually lengthy planning and procurement processes....
...Decisively purging Saturday’s atmosphere of well-behaved repression, K-hip-hop progenitor and professional bad boy Park closed the festival with bass-shaking, trap-tinged twerk anthems....
...Hybe chief executive Park Ji-won played down financial concerns related to BTS’s absence, citing its broader line-up of artists including other popular K-pop groups such as Le Sserafim and western pop stars...
...Architect Ferenc K Császár completed Dandár in its eponymous red-brick street in the 1930s as a public bath for abluting, not lounging....
...In November 2012, a music video from South Korean singer Park Jae-sang, more popularly known as Psy, became the most-watched video on YouTube ever....
...Kraftwerk are established nightlife icons, and watching the German electronic music pioneers emerge before sunset in Victoria Park felt rather surreal....
...There is now a “K-shaped” pattern in consumer spending, he said....
...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....
...Hong Kong signed an arrangement called “One Zone, Two Parks” in September 2021....
...UK, December producer price index (PPI) inflation rate data Results: Alstom Q3 sales update, ASML FY, AT&T Q4, Boeing Q4, CMC Markets Q3 trading update, easyJet Q1 trading update, Givaudan FY, IBM Q4, Kimberly-Clark...
...In 2005 Park established K Auction; her two sons run Gallery Hyundai and K Auction respectively....
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