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K-Pop’s Jeon Somi is a 'survivor'

At just 25, Jeon Somi is already over a decade into her music career and has hundreds of millions of views on her YouTube channel from fans around the globe. Daniel Dae Kim meets Somi and her dad for lunch in Seoul to hear how she’s navigated the K-pop industry from a teenage trainee to an established solo singer-songwriter. K-Everything: A CNN Original Series streams in the U.S. on the CNN app and globally on HBO Max.

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