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Seungri’s shame makes it into the FT

Seungri in the FT
The top stories in the FT’s South Korea section today

It’s not often that you find a K-pop story in the pink pages of the Financial Times. In fact, if you search their site for “BTS” you will simply get a list of articles about the company formerly known as British Telecom.

So what brings them to report the ins and outs of Lee Seung-hyun’s, aka Seungri’s, withdrawal from Big Bang?

Shares of YG Entertainment, the agency for Big Bang, have fallen more than 20 per cent since Mr Lee’s scandal broke in late February.

The FT also reports that other quoted entertainment companies have also seen share price declines. Read the full story here.

The BBC also has the story.