The Chinese leader’s Apec stay raises expectations that an unofficial boycott would be lifted, but official bodies urge calm.

South Korea has moved to calm speculation that China will lift an unofficial ban on the country’s entertainment industry in the wake of President Xi Jinping’s visit to the country. Lawmaker Kim Young-bae said Xi had responded positively to a proposed South Korean performance in Beijing, prompting a rise in entertainment companies’ share prices. “I hope that this will be the moment when the door opens to full-fledged K-culture advancement beyond the lifting of the THAAD ban,” Kim wrote on social…

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