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No escaping K-pop, kimchi, K-beauty in Singapore
After eight years in Seoul, the writer returns to Singapore only to wonder: Did South Korea follow her home?
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There seems to be no real need to visit South Korea since everything hip and trendy there will eventually find its way to Singapore.
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Moving back to Singapore from Seoul in June, I gleefully bade goodbye to a previous life filled with K-pop, kimchi and an obsession with beauty.
After eight years in homogeneous South Korea, I couldn’t wait to escape and dive back into the arms of multicultural Singapore.
