CJ Group’s Miky Lee Hailed as ‘Godmother of K-Culture’ as She Receives Asian Hall of Fame Lifetime Achievement Medal

CJ Group’s Miky Lee Hailed as ‘Godmother of K-Culture’ as She Receives Asian Hall of Fame Lifetime Achievement Medal hakkında magazin dünyasında yaşanan en son ayrıntılar ve sıcak gelişmeler netleşti. Nov 6, 2026 5:28pm PT CJ Group’s Miky Lee Hailed as ‘Godmother of K-Culture’ as She Receives Asian Hall of Fame Lifetime Achievement Medal By Naman Ramachandran Plus Icon Naman Ramachandran Latest Cannes, Annecy-Winning ‘Iron Boy’ Producer Eddy Cinema Backs Memory-Erasure Animation ‘Wilderness of the Greenriver’ at Taiwan Creative Content Fest 1 hour ago Alien Cat Sent to Conquer Earth Goes Soft for Catnip and Canned Tuna in Taiwan Creative Content Fest Animated Series ‘Operation Maomao’ 2 hours ago AI’s Hidden Footprint, From Quartz Mines to Kenyan Click-Workers, Bared in Taiwan Creative Content Fest Doc ‘The Technological Sublime’ 2 hours ago See All Add us as a Google Preferred Source Comments Miky Lee , vice chair of Korea’s CJ Group , was handed the Asian Hall of Fame’s Centennial Medal of Lifetime Achievement in Los Angeles. K-pop pioneer Lee Soo-man did the honors.

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Lee Soo-man, the SM Entertainment founder who is now key producer at A2O Entertainment, reminded the audience that Miky Lee had introduced him at the same event a year earlier and called him the godfather of K-pop. “Well, tonight, I’d like to return the favor,” he said.

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“If I am the godfather of K-pop, then Miky Lee is the godmother of K-culture.” Related Stories Oscar Predictions: Animated Feature — A New and Competitive Era for the Medium That Isn’t Just for Kids ‘Drummer Boy’ Review: Love, Family and Revolution Conflict at Musket’s Point in a Swoony Period Musical The Asian Hall of Fame gives the medal to inductees it sees as people of strong character who have raised the bar in their industries, made a cultural mark and worked across racial lines. Miky Lee was recognized for more than 30 years of connecting Korea with audiences abroad through film, music and television.

The two have been friends for more than 50 years. Lee Soo-man said he first met her when he was a college student who was already a well-known singer and radio and TV host, and she was still a middle schooler.

“But even then, she was already the boss,” he said. He also told the audience about a phone call he got from her a few years ago while he was in Dubai.

She told him to wait for her, then flew in from the U.S. and arrived the next day.

He didn’t say what the visit was about. “I’ve learned over the years that it’s very difficult to say no to Miky Lee,” he said.

Looking back to 1995, when CJ was still known as a food company, Lee Soo-man said: “Korea was hardly a major player in the global entertainment industry. But Miky saw something others didn’t.” He said she helped steer CJ’s DreamWorks investment that year, helped transform Korea’s film industry through CGV, and played a part in turning the MAMA Awards and KCON into worldwide platforms.

“Culture is like oxygen. We may take it for granted, but we cannot live without it,” Miky Lee said in her acceptance speech.

She was born in Knoxville, Tenn., and raised in Seoul, and she said that belief came from her grandfather, who founded both CJ and Samsung and liked to say, “No culture, no country!” She and her brother Jay took those words to heart at what was then a food business. “We’ve been entertaining people’s mouths.

Why not their eyes and ears, too?” she recalled them saying. She said the DreamWorks deal was a chance to learn from the best, not a grab at Hollywood glamour.

After it came CGV in 1998, Korea’s first multiplex, then a move into cable TV and the launch of production house Studio Dragon. She said Mnet was created to give a new genera

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