tvN’Monthly Connect’ appearance… “China should try to become’Asian Hollywood'”
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SM Entertainment General Producer Lee Soo-man said, “Our country is the country of producers,” and said, “I dream of becoming a leader in leading global cultures.”
Producer Lee Soo-man appeared on the tvN humanities liberal arts program’Monthly Connect’, which aired on the 1st, and announced that K-pop will face its second revival in China.
He has been targeting the Chinese market since 2000 when HOT entered China, he emphasized in this broadcast that China must reopen the Korean Wave.
Artists from Korea, such as K-pop groups, have been restricted from local activities with the so-called Han-Ryeong (Hallyu Han-Ryu, 限韓令) in China since 2016.
This producer mentioned JYP Entertainment’s CEO Park Jin-young and Bang Si-hyuk, Chairman of Big Hit Entertainment. ‘The era of'” he pointed out.
He then emphasized that “China should try to become the’Asian Hollywood’ that accepts ours and makes them new and presents them to the world.”
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In addition, he revealed insights he realized while living in the’new normal era’ brought by the 4th industrial revolution.
The producer said, referring to the new girl group Espa, recently introduced by SM, “It’s time to admit that AI (artificial intelligence) has replaced our friend and secretary.”
Espa is a group in which real world members and virtual world avatar members work together.
He said, “If we have 10 avatars per citizen, we have a population of 500 million people.”
This producer is called the’pioneer of K-pop’ by establishing an idol group culture in the domestic popular music industry and successfully advancing them overseas.
HOT, BoA, TVXQ, Super Junior, Girls’ Generation, SHINee, EXO, Super M, and NCT have raised singers with huge fandom at home and abroad.
/yunhap news
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