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Lessons from Korea on soft power

South Korean actor Lee Jung-jae recently bagged the Best Actor title at the 27th Critics Choice Awards in Los Angeles earlier this month. This makes him the first Korean actor to take home the Best Actor accolade in the Drama Series category. Lee is known internationally for his lead role in the nine-episode survival drama Squid Game.

His lead role from the hit show also earned him the crown of Best Actor in the Drama category at the 28th Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Awards last month in the United States. Lee was also nominated for Best Actor — Television Series Drama at the 2022 Golden Globe Awards which took place in January.

Followings its release in September last year, it only took Squid Game four weeks to become Netflix’s most-watched show ever in any language, according to a Bloomberg report. The 77-year-old South Korean actor O Yeong-su also…

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