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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...
...“Cho was like the original K-pop idol, with looks, intelligence and morality on his side,” said Lee....
...Michelle Seng Ah Lee Deloitte, London EC4, UK...
...Michelle Lam, greater China economist at Société Générale, said the stamp duty cuts would benefit developers and that any stimulus for transactions would probably be shortlived as investors were still being...
...Current highlights include a 1946 issue featuring work by Erwin Blumenfeld, Cecil Beaton, Lee Miller and Horst, available for £224....
...“[Our] local talent is constantly pushing the boundaries and experimenting with new flavours and ingredients,” says Lee Brian Schrager, founder of SOBEWFF....
...Parole’s work is in the mix this year (from £200), while bidding will start at the lowest possible level for a work by Goldsmiths student Michelle Lee Johnson....
..., just before Lee’s death) into To Kill a Mockingbird....
...“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.”...
...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....
...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....
...Ke Huy Quan, a Vietnamese-American actor, won the Best Supporting Actor award for his role in the film, while Jamie Lee Curtis picked up the prize for Best Supporting Actress....
...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...
...And so in show business, it's fantastic that I'm a 64-year-old woman that won the Oscar, and Michelle Yeoh was a 60-year-old woman who won the Oscar. That is fantastic....
...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....
...Lee Anderson, the Tory MP who is also deputy chair of the party, said in February that with Brexit off the agenda the party needed to find new topics to galvanise the electorate, namely the “trans debate...
...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....
...Little did I expect that by 2023, K-pop would have blazed into the mainstream, becoming one of the most popular musical genres in the world....
...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...
...Lee begins with the perplexing fifth life, “Virgin Ghost on the North Korean Border”, set in 1961 and narrated by a male observer....
...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....
...john.thornhill@ft.com Letters in response to this column: Hype it may be, but generative AI cuts through / From Michelle Seng Ah Lee, Deloitte, London EC4, UK On generative artificial intelligence, you...
...SM, which manages NCT and Aespa as well as Super Junior and Girls’ Generation, is the country’s first publicly listed K-pop agency....
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