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From Hoyeon To Clinton Kane, These Artists From Asia Pacific Are Taking On The World

The 2022 Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia: Entertainment & Sports list is star-studded, and it’s easy to see why after an eventful year in Asia-Pacific.

From the delayed Tokyo Olympics 2020 finally taking place a year later than they were initially planned, to the 2022 Winter Olympics Games in Beijing–The region was a sports hub despite the ongoing pandemic. 15 of the Olympians who competed at either events made the list this year, including our youngest honoree, 14-year old Japanese skateboarding gold-medalist Momiji Nishiya.

But that’s not all. Korean drama has take off globally in 2021, thanks to Netflix’s most-watched series of all time, Squid Game, starring 27-year-old model-turned actress Hoyeon.

In 2020, Hoyeon (whose real name is Jung Hoyeon) was struggling to land modeling gigs, so she decided to…

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