4 Consecutive Years, Executive Producer Lee Soo Man Becomes the Only Korean Selected in 'Variety 500'

Kapanlagi.com - Through its official website, Variety released the 'Variety 500' list which contains 500 influential leaders who lead the global media market based on their achievements in the past year. This year, in addition to producer Lee Soo Man, Steve Barnett CEO of Capitol Music Group, Kevin Feige CEO of Marvel Studio, Jeff Bezos CEO of Amazon, and Reed Hastings CEO of Netflix are also on the 'Variety 500' list.

The name of producer Lee Soo Man, one of the pioneers of the K-Pop world, has successfully entered the 'Variety 500' list for 4 years, from 2017 to 2020. Lee Soo Man is the only Korean person selected for four consecutive years along with Steven Spielberg, Mark Zuckerberg CEO of Facebook, and Tim Cook CEO of Apple.

1. Variety's Response

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Regarding executive producer Lee Soo Man, Variety wrote, "As a pioneer of modern K-POP, Lee Soo-man remains powerful and continues to develop the SM Universe."

And it continues, "Not only successful in Asia with various groups, such as TVXQ! and EXO, Lee Soo-man has also become an industry leader with great success in the United States. Recently, Lee Soo Man produced SuperM, a combined team called K-POP Avengers, and has shown strong influence as the 'father of K-POP'."

2. Proving His Influence

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In addition, executive producer Lee Soo Man has proven his influence by becoming the first Korean to win the '2016 Asia Game Changer Awards' from the Asia Society as recognition for promoting Korean pop culture to the world and transforming the global cultural industry with the Korean Wave.

In 2017, Lee Soo Man won the 'Yongsan Diplomatic Award' for the first time in cultural history. This year, Lee Soo Man became the only Korean selected in the '2020 Billboard Impact List,' which includes a list of outstanding leaders in creating the future of the global music industry, and won the '29th Dasan Management Award' in the entrepreneur category.

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