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SM Entertainment founder Lee Soo-man on the future of K-pop and business management

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It’s been over 3 decades since Soo-man Lee founded SM Entertainment, one of the South Korean music agencies known for bringing K-pop to the world.

The entertainment company, originally founded as SM Studio in 1989, he became one of the first to fuel the global Hallyu wave, better known as the Korean wave.

But Lee’s music wasn’t always based on Korean pop music.

“I became a singer when I was 19 years old. Even though I was famous, I noticed that the audience was very quiet when I sang because I sang popular songs,” he told CNBC’s Chery Kang in an interview on The CNBC Conversation.

SM Entertainment’s Soo-man Lee (4th from right) posing with K-pop supergroup SuperM.

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“But when foreign bands come [South Korea to] act, they…

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