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fromLos Angeles Times
1 week ago

'KPop: Demon Hunters' stays 'Golden' with two Oscar nominations

KPop Demon Hunters earned two Oscar nominations for animated feature and original song, marking mainstream Academy recognition for K-pop and Korean-diaspora musicians.
fromBusiness Insider
5 months ago

He traded Goldman Sachs for a startup, then America for Korea

Now, he's living in Seoul andbuilding a business that aims to create a community for the Korean diaspora like him. Getting here required leaving behind everything he knew. By his mid-20s, Cho felt like he could see exactly what the next 20 years of his life would look like. Good pay, long hours, and climbing the corporate ladder in finance. "I felt like a dead person," Cho, now 28, told Business Insider about his job at Goldman Sachs.
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