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?

There seems to be no real need to visit South Korea since everything hip and trendy there will eventually find its way to Singapore. PHOTOS: CHANG MAY CHOON, ST FILE
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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. 

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