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Kang Heon, chairperson of the Korea Arts & Culture Education Service, who worked as a popular music critic and myeongri scholar, has died aged 64.

Kang Heon, chair of the Korea Art & Culture Education Service (KACES) and a pop music critic active in the 1990s, has died. He was 64.

Caroline Darya Framke who was chief TV critic at Variety from 2019 to 2023, will join the Culture desk. Read more in the below note from Culture editor Sia Michel.

It can be rough watching older TV shows and movies. Sometimes, jokes that were funny 30 or even just 10 years ago come off as horrifically offensive now. When this happens, people use the expression: “This didn’t age well.”

Before the 21st century, TV could be sorted into three categories: hits, flops, and cult classics. Hits that touched a societal nerve—The Twilight Zone, Norman Lear sitcoms—earned a place in our collective memory. Flops were soon forgotten, and usually deserved it. Cult classics like My So-Called Lifeand Dark Shadowsvaried in popularity during their runs but…

Case in point, the Transformers star—who shares Noah, 13, Bodhi, 12, and Journey, 9, with ex Brian Austin Green and Saga Blade, 15 months, with ex Machine Gun Kelly—proved just that when she shared a few sultry photos of herself posing in black lingerie to Instagram July 17.