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Hi K-pop dreaming listeners. This is Taylor Kaufman from LAS Studios.

Recently, LAIS 89.3 presented a live event for the book launch of Flawless, Lessons in Looks and Culture from the

K-Beauty Capital, featuring a conversation between the book's author, Elise Hugh, and NPR's

All Things Considered host, Elsa Chang. The popularity of Korean beauty products has spread

globally, just like K-pop. And we thought you might enjoy this

conversation on the rise of K-beaut not only as an industry, but as a global beauty standard.

Here's an edited excerpt of the conversation. Enjoy. So I am so excited to have this night with my very good friend, Elise, because I have

watched you write this book during the pandemic while we were all juggling so much madness.

And she was homeschooling like three girls. And when I was reading this book, I was just like,

how did she get all of this done?

Because I watched from the outside, and I was so impressed.

So I'm very excited to talk about this book.

But before I get to the actual book, I want to explain how Elise and I even know each other.

So Elise and I, obviously, we're both from NPR.

And we started reaching out to each other because of a thing that would happen.

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