[K-Enter] BLACKPINK's Lisa receives standing ovation at the Academy Awards

Now it's time for our daily dose of K-enter news with Walter Lee.

Starting off with some news from the Academy Awards.

History was made for K-pop when BLACKPINK's Lisa became the first K-pop singer to perform at the Academy Awards.

On Sunday local time, Lisa took the stage at the 97th Academy Awards, held at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles. She was then followed by performances by Doja Cat and RAYE.

Lisa performed "Live and Let Die", Doja Cat sang "Diamonds Are Forever", and RAYE performed "Skyfall", all hit songs from the James Bond franchise.

Originally, the three were supposed to sing Lisa's latest release "Born Again," which features Doja Cat and RAYE, but this was changed.

After the performances, the three artists greeted the audience together, receiving a standing ovation.

Although Lisa wasn't able to perform her own song, I imagine it was fulfilling to sing at such a prestigious award ceremony.

Moving onto movies now, you have some figures on how Bong Joon-ho's latest movie "Mickey 17" has been doing.

Korean director Bong Joon-ho's latest film "Mickey 17" has surpassed 1 million moviegoers domestically within four days of its release, making it a perfect movie for the long weekend. As of Monday morning, "Mickey 17" had accumulated over 1.11 million viewers.

The film was released last Friday, and as of Tuesday morning, the total audience count had reached approximately 1.3 million. To put this into context, "Mickey 17" reached 1 million moviegoers in a shorter time than Christopher Nolan's 2023 film "Oppenheimer."

The movie is based on "Mickey 7," a novel by American author Edward Ashton. "Mickey 17" is Bong Joon-ho's first film in six years since the Academy Award winning "Parasite."

The film stars Robert Pattinson, Naomi Ackie, Steven Yeun, Toni Collette, and Mark Ruffalo. The production of "Mickey 17" cost around 118 million U.S. dollars, approximately 170 billion Korean won. It is the most expensive film ever made by a Korean director.

It was a movie that many had high expectations and it seems that "Mickey 17" is living up to them.

Now even though Squid Game season 2 has been out for a while, the fever has not slowed down

Tell us what news you have on the series.

Welcome to the "Squid Game: The Experience"! What is it you may ask? Well it is an immersive attraction where visitors can directly engage with the thrills and excitement unique to the massive Netflix series "Squid Game".

First launched in New York in October last year, it has since expanded to major cities such as Madrid and Sydney and it opened in Seoul last Friday.

What can you do at this place located in the hip area of Seongsu? Well, a variety of games. Participants can take on six unique challenges inspired by the series, including marbles, a treasure hunt, memory steps, red light, green light, tug-of-war, and round and round.

Also visitors can eat food from the show, snap tonnes of memories in the photo zones, and purchase exclusive merchandise.

"Squid Game: The Experience" has been running from February 28 and will until June 25.

Sounds like a whole lot of fun! Thanks for the entertainment news Walter.

Thank you.

Now time to go over to our AI anchor Ari, for other culture related news. Ari, take it away!