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Retail sales volumes, including petrol, fell by 3.7% month-to-month in December, well below the consensus forecast for a 0.6% decline. Disappointing UK retail data this morning has not helped matters, though some economists said the numbers are unlikely to dissuade the Bank of England to hike interest rates again next month. As shares in London and across Europe tumble, echoing the late plunge in the US overnight, investors and analysts are wondering if the technical correction seen on the Nasdaq is going to turn into something bigger.

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K pop is part of what is called 'Hallyu' – literally meaning 'Korean wave' – used to refer to the colossal and ever-growing impact of South Korean culture, shown in the popularity of everything from K-dramas on Netflix to the meteoric rise of K-beauty. The group has been at the forefront of pushing K pop into the mainstream music scene for years and their efforts were recognised at the 2021 American Music Awards on Sunday night when they won Artist of the Year - the biggest award of the night. But it wasn't just any old win, it's one to go down in history as BTS are now the first Asian act to win in the category at the AMAs.

Readers can access tens of thousands of print and e-books from our extensive catalogue of titles. We're partnering with a highly successful TV and film production studio based in Greater Los Angeles in their efforts to hire a Human Resources Business Partner. This is a newly created role reporting into a the company's Head of Talent and HR, who is a great developer of people, and has been added to staff to ensure adequate coverage as the HR ... Meanwhile, its digital space called the “Virtual LiveCity” will displace the area through Metaverse – a first in the world. This enables a fully immersive experience, where the audience can interact and communicate with each other in real time as well as enjoy a content experience beyond time and space constraints.

According to the IFPI's Global Artist Chart, BTS were the second best-selling artists of 2018 , as well as the only non-English speaking artist to enter the chart. The seven members are rappers Suga, RM and J-hope, and vocalists Jimin, V, Jin and Jungkook. "From an early age, they live a mechanical life, going through a spartan training regimen,” said Lee Hark-joon, a South Korean journalist. "They seldom have a chance to develop a normal school life or normal social relationships." South Korea’s rapprochement to former colonising power Japan in the 1960s caused a translation boom of Japanese literature, which has not ceased since its onset and witnessed several transformations in its course.

A man accused of smuggling across the sealed-off Chinese border was shot dead on November 28 in order to scare people into following the rules, according to Radio Free Asia. And in December last year,North Korea held a public execution by firing squad to punish a breach of coronavirus rules, insiders in the country said.. The father, whose surname was Lee, was arrested in Wonsan, Gangwon province, before allegedly being executed 40 days later in front of a crowd of 500 people. Radio Free Asiareported that one student who bought a copy of the drive has since received a life sentence, while six others who watched the show have been sentenced to five years hard labor. But North Korea had not given up public executions - 23 of the 27 documented in the report were public - but it was more determined to ensure it could control who attended, the group said.

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The country’s first Legoland Park will be situated on the island of Hajungdo in Chuncheon, a city within a two-hour drive of nearly 24m people, and expects to create 1,600 jobs. Their scandals rocked South Korea’s entertainment industry earlier this year when the investigations began. Two K-pop stars have been jailed by a court in South Korea after being found guilty of a sexual attack on a woman who was unable to resist. South Korea, which offers some of the world's best skincare products, has also been reported to have the highest per capita rate of cosmetic surgery in the world, with one in three women in the country aged between 19 and 29 reported to have gone under the knife, according to a 2015 survey by Gallup Korea. Visitors to this month’s Winter Olympics, in the unassuming ski resort of Pyeongchang, can take in a sleepy backdrop of Buddhist temples and dreamy peaks, such as the imposing Seoraksan which forms part of the backbone of the Korean peninsula’s mountainous landscape. Jeju is the capital of an island, Jejudo, which might just be the most popular holiday destination you’ve never heard of.

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The National Energy Action warned thatan additional 1.2 million to 1.5 million British households will be plunged into fuel poverty next springas they struggle to afford to heat and power their homes. This warning was stated in response to energy regulator Ofgem’s prediction that the energy price cap is likely to have to rise again in April next year to reflect the increasing wholesale price of gas. 인플루언서블로그 of Bucket Studio, which holds a stake in the agency representing the show’s lead actor, soared bya whopping 107.08%in the past month. Distributor ShowBox, who had previously invested in Siren Pictures, the show’s privately-owned production firm, isup by 45%. The best Korean site is the National Center for Korean Traditional Performing Arts (); from here click on GugakFM to listen to radio programmes of Korean music.

The following day President Barack Obama hosted Korea's President Lee Myung-bak for a whirlwind schedule of events, which drew the comment "the carpet does not get any redder than that" from The New York Times. The Entertainment Industry Coalition For Free Trade spelled out the creative community's many reasons to celebrate the Korea-U.S. Free trade agreement last December, and the MPAA and RIAA thanked Congress for passing the three agreements. Similar to the international Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement that Korea and the United States signed on Oct. 1 that is now awaiting ratification, these agreements promise a harmonized international environment for intellectual property protection and enforcement. Korea's entertainment marketplace presents a less predictable road ahead, filled with cultural and commercial opportunities, particularly for digital media distribution. On January 9, 2020, amendments to the Credit Information Use and Protection Act (“Credit Information Act”) were passed during a plenary session of the National Assembly.

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Referring to Clinton's response, MPAA Chairman and CEO Christopher Dodd responded in a blog on Huffington Post on Nov. 4, countering those who would confuse government crackdowns on criminal infringement with government crackdowns on political dissent. Dodd concluded, "We must keep the Internet free and open. And we can while promoting innovation and preserving jobs. Like Secretary Clinton, we are strongly committed to achieving both goals." Provides cross-practice advisory and regulatory services, working closely with the entertainment and sports practice. Lawyers provide advice on antitrust laws and intellectual property to domestic and foreign companies investing in the local media market.

EFF maintains the status quo has consumers on the alert and ISPs cooperating, so allowing the FCC to regulate the Internet under vague and broad powers would grant it dangerous "carte blanche authority" that could be abused in the future. The Recording Academy actively represents the music community on such issues as intellectual property rights, music piracy, archiving and preservation, and censorship concerns. In pursuing its commitment to addressing these and other issues, The Recording Academy undertakes a variety of national initiatives.

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More than 100 companies have raised a combined Won20tn through IPOs so far this year, according to Korea Exchange. The company’s listing comes after K-pop fan communication platform operator DearU went public earlier in November. DearU, backed by both SM and JYP Entertainment, raised Won85.8bn in its IPO, with the listing attracting huge interest from both institutional and retail investors.

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IQ publishes a regular magazine, several annual reports, and a daily news digest, IQ Index. The IQ family also includes ILMC, the live music industry’s top international conference event, and the International Festival Forum . As global music fans hear more and more sounds from around the world, Asia is a huge territory that is seeking out Western music and the appetite for this is increasing. Firstly, you need to be export ready - this means you need strong social media channels, an active team behind you and a desire to push your music. Everything from distribution, streaming and social media channels need to work in harmony for artists to achieve the most success when exporting their music internationally. Surprisingly to us, Spotify and Deezer are not the main channels for music consumption in Asia, this is just one of the many nuggets of information you will need ahead of any trip!

Antioco turned down the offer because the mail-based DVD rental business seemed too niche. It was once unthinkable for a conservative cabinet minister to go on radio and accuse businesses of being “drunk” on cheap, migrant labour. And yet, that is exactly what justice secretary Dominic Raab did earlier this week. Time (court music can be very slow, with each beat measured in terms of breath – imagine a cloud flowing over an empty field, or a long stroke of the calligrapher’s brush; most folk music suits the Korean propensity to dance).

Opposing this seeming expansion of FCC regulatory authority over the Internet has been a leading issue for Republicans since this year's Congress assembled in January, and companion legislation H.J. The rules were hit with multiple lawsuits in September soon after their publication in the Federal Register. Although most reactions for and against the Senate's vote fell along party lines, consumer advocate Free Press is in the complicated position of applauding the vote while suing over the regulations' rules for not applying to wireless Internet. Free Press Action Fund President and CEO Craig Aaron said, "Free Press will continue to push the FCC to make better rules and to actually enforce them. Today's vote is a major victory for the public, but the fight for the free and open Internet is far from over." As the Wall Street Journal pointed out in a recent report, the accelerated adoption of video conferencing tools à la Zoom also ties into this trend thanks to their ability to provide tech-enabled shared experiences. Epic Games, the developer of the battle royale mega hit Fortnite, is one of the companies that have created worldwide events tied in with the metaverse.

Credit information subjects will be granted the right to request financial companies and public institutions to transmit their personal credit information (i.e., right to data portability of personal credit information) to other financial companies . The following specific examples of legislation are representative of the overall direction planned for the financial regulatory environment in the year ahead. In 2018, Korea experienced major reforms to the employment laws including, but not limited to, the Labor Standards Act. For example, many employers scrambled – many are still struggling – to adjust their work hour structures to comply with the new 52-hour work hour limit. For your information, we have highlighted two major changes in the employment law landscape for 2019.



Such is the ongoing obsession that Incheon Airport was once reportedly considered installing a plastic surgery clinic in one of it terminals. In addition to its entertainment activities – which include record labels, concert production/promotion and music publishing, as well as television production and the CGV cinema chain – CJ Group is active in food and food service, pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, home shopping and business logistics. Nokia News links and empowers local users, local content creators, and local businesses at scale, with the objective of enabling people worldwide live safer, more vibrant, more truly connected lives. By developing tight ties with hundreds of local publishers and companies around the country, Nokia News ’s objective is to enable a new generation of readers find and engage with critical, locally generated content and information. This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Entertainment Computing, ICEC 2010, held in Seoul, Korea, in August 2010, under the auspices of IFIP.

The procedure to crack down on online piracy permits only copyright holders or collecting societies to report infringing Web sites to the Intellectual Property Commission for its determination whether infringement actually occurred. This determination must then be reviewed by the Madrid High Court within four days to finally decide whether a site or portions of a site are to be shut down. British think tank Demos released the report "Risky Business" on Oct. 10 at a media event led by UK Culture Minister Ed Vaizey. The research-intensive report argues creative industries fall victim to a myth of being especially high-risk, which deters investors but is not reflected by a particularly high rate of business failure, especially compared to other risky businesses such as hotels and restaurants. The implications for quantitative treatment of the intellectual property-based economy are profound, especially with regard to government policy efforts. As in the case of the amended PIPA, the amended Credit Information Act also provides legal grounds for the processing of pseudonymized information without consent and introduces the compatibility concept.

The concept of MyData services will be introduced which will allow individuals to, among other things, conduct integrated searches of their own credit information as well as carry out credit and asset self-management. On July 30, 2018, the Korean Ministry of Economy and Finance (“MOEF”) announced the proposed tax law changes/amendments for 2019 and beyond (“Proposals”). The Proposals are expected to be reviewed and finalized by the Korean National Assembly in December 2018. The Korea Fair Trade Commission (the “KFTC”) recently amended its Guidelines for Merger Review (the ”Guidelines”), which took effect from February 27, 2019.

It could be argued that ETRI almost singlehandedly initiated South Korea’s global leadership of the mobile telecommunications industry. There are many other excellent examples of where strategic support for science and its application has supported South Korean global industrial leadership. That event was part of the GREAT Britain campaign - the UK Government’s most ambitious international marketing campaign ever. It showcases the very best of what Britain has to offer in order to encourage the world to visit, study and do business in and with the UK.



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