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...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...
...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...
..., just before Lee’s death) into To Kill a Mockingbird....
...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....
...“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.”...
...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....
...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...
...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....
...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....
...Kakao said the tender offer would increase its stake in the K-pop juggernaut to 40 per cent from 4.9 per cent....
...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...
...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....
...Lee begins with the perplexing fifth life, “Virgin Ghost on the North Korean Border”, set in 1961 and narrated by a male observer....
...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....
...SM, which manages NCT and Aespa as well as Super Junior and Girls’ Generation, is the country’s first publicly listed K-pop agency....
...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...
...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....
...The most prolific activist during the first quarter was Align Partners, a small South Korean firm founded by former private equity executive Changhwan Lee....
...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...
...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’...
...publicly traded K-pop behemoth....
...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...
...But two important bills aimed at bolstering it, known as the K-Chips Acts, are still pending in parliament....
...In 2005 Park established K Auction; her two sons run Gallery Hyundai and K Auction respectively....
...But whatever the ruling, education experts say a far bigger problem remains: US primary and secondary (known as K-12) schools are still highly segregated by race, and the situation is worse today than it...
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