Jun 10, 2019
What Boy Band Sensation BTS Can Teach Us About Economics
, Bloomberg News
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South Korean boy band BTS is rarely connected to economics, but as the biggest success to come out of K-Pop, it arguably should be. On this week's episode of Odd Lots, we speak to Euny Hong, the author of “The Birth of Korean Cool,” about how South Korea made cultural exports a key plank in its economic development strategy.
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