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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...
...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...
...“Cho was like the original K-pop idol, with looks, intelligence and morality on his side,” said Lee....
...Having slept in a park and not wishing to repeat the experience, we decided to go door to door, seeking help....
...As a hardline prosecutor, he oversaw the conviction of conservative former president Park Geun-hye and Samsung heir Lee Jae-yong on bribery and corruption charges....
...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...
...But the leads are hugely personable, with a briskly affecting spiky-sisterly interplay between Park and Cola....
...Former South Korean president Lee Myung-bak will be pardoned after serving almost four years of a 17-year sentence for corruption, embezzlement and bribery, the country’s justice ministry has said....
...“We strongly condemn Japan’s outrageous decision,” said Lee Jae-myung, the main opposition party leader, describing it as an “atrocity”....
...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.)...
...“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....
...In 2005 Park established K Auction; her two sons run Gallery Hyundai and K Auction respectively....
...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....
...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....
...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....
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