ENTERTAINMENT · THE WANG REPORT

FROM THE ENTERTAINMENT · WEEKLY COLUMN

Kakao's $1 billion SM acquisition and HYBE's IP litigation against Min Hee-jin are the same transaction: buying legal control of who a trainee becomes.

By Joy LeeSenior CorrespondentSun, May 17

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