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Attendees take selfies with cardboard cutout figures at KCON USA, billed as the world's largest Korean culture convention and music festival in Los Angeles, California on August 11, 2018. In June, the boy band BTS became the first K-pop group to top the Billboard 200 album chart, with “Love Yourself: Tear”. “We K-pop artists are really proud of them, because we know how hard it is to make it in the industry”, Ailee, a U.S.-born K-pop star whose given name is Yejin Lee, said in a phone interview. “The fact that they opened up those doors and cleared the way for us, it's a huge hope for us”, said Ailee, who performed at KCON. (Photo by Mike Blake/Reuters)
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