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After One Flat-Out Flop This Year, Hirokazu Kore-eda Only Manages to Be Slightly Less Disappointing

After One Flat-Out Flop This Year, Hirokazu Kore-eda Only Manages to Be Slightly Less Disappointing

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After One Flat-Out Flop This Year, Hirokazu Kore-eda Only Manages to Be Slightly Less Disappointing

Hirokazu Kore-eda’s live-action Look Back, by merely copying its source material without genuine cinematic adaptation and relying on stiff performances and forced sentimentality, proves a mediocre work that falls far short of Lee Chang-dong’s The Possible Love and further reveals the Palme d’Or-winning director’s creative decline.

guang.O5 min
2026 Global Live Entertainment Market Outlook: Amidst Prosperity, Who Claims the Profits?

2026 Global Live Entertainment Market Outlook: Amidst Prosperity, Who Claims the Profits?

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2026 Global Live Entertainment Market Outlook: Amidst Prosperity, Who Claims the Profits?

The prosperity of the global live entertainment market does not benefit all participants equally; profits are increasingly concentrating among the few winners who own scarce content, control the transaction gateway, and command venue resources, while promoters who bear only per‑project risk without long‑term assets remain in a vulnerable position of high risk and low profit.

uimin18 min
The Rolls‑Royce of Running Shoes” Breaks Into the “Four Treasures of the Middle Class

The Rolls‑Royce of Running Shoes” Breaks Into the “Four Treasures of the Middle Class

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The Rolls‑Royce of Running Shoes” Breaks Into the “Four Treasures of the Middle Class

Saucony has successfully broken out of its niche thanks to its professional reputation, accessible pricing, and the trend of “relaxed pragmatism,” but to become Xtep’s “Fila” and sustain its second growth curve, it still faces fierce competition in expanding consumption scenarios and deepening brand perception.

guang.O14 min
Behind Google's AI Watermark Rollout: The Music Industry Bids Farewell to the "Blind-Box Era" – Who Is Restructuring the Underlying Order?

Behind Google's AI Watermark Rollout: The Music Industry Bids Farewell to the "Blind-Box Era" – Who Is Restructuring the Underlying Order?

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Behind Google's AI Watermark Rollout: The Music Industry Bids Farewell to the "Blind-Box Era" – Who Is Restructuring the Underlying Order?

Google's rollout of AI watermarking ends the chaotic "blind-box era" of AI music, forcing the industry to shift from cheap mass-production toward rebuilding underlying trust and risk-hedging mechanisms, and the true winners will be those who build systematic infrastructure as order-makers.

Fengyu4 min
South Korea’s “Most Expensive Divorce” Case Takes a New Turn

South Korea’s “Most Expensive Divorce” Case Takes a New Turn

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South Korea’s “Most Expensive Divorce” Case Takes a New Turn

After being ordered in the second-instance retrial to pay 944 billion won in divorce property settlement, Chey Tae-won filed an appeal on the eve of the ruling taking effect, pushing South Korea's largest-ever divorce case back to the Supreme Court—a move intended not only to challenge the legal application in the ruling but also, more likely, to buy time to raise the enormous payment and avoid overdue interest.

guyua.R6 min