Leslie Cheung’s path to stardom, 10 new K-dramas to watch: 5 Lifestyle highlights

Hong Kong pop icon Leslie Cheung on the set of director Wong Kar-wai’s Days of Being Wild in 1990.

Cheung was a trailblazing Cantopop icon who reshaped Hong Kong’s entertainment scene.

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Spring is here and with it an all-new line-up of tantalising K-drama offerings, ranging from fantasy, action and animation to a wide variety of romance.

Cheung at an interview with the SCMP in 1988.

Photo: SCMP In the golden age of Hong Kong’s entertainment industry, Leslie Cheung Kwok-wing was a star so bright that he rewrote the rules of conservative Asian society.

Affectionately nicknamed Gor Gor – Cantonese for “older brother” – the Cantopop legend’s talent spanned disciplines and extended far beyond the city’s borders.

Miso Ramen.

Photo: Happy Samurai Noodles seem to be the emerging theme of April’s new restaurant openings, as four new specialist eateries join the fray, including one of Tokyo’s top three ramen shops and a plant-based ramen hideaway.

Suspected members of triad societies are guarded by officers in Tung Tau Estate, Kowloon, in 1973.

Hong Kong’s triads have evolved from secret societies into global criminal networks.

Photo: SCMP One man’s terrorist is another’s freedom fighter, or so the saying goes.

Similarly, the history of Hong Kong’s triads is not merely a chronicle of crime, but a multilayered saga deeply intertwined with Chinese politics, migration and the city’s unique position.

The journey from righteous secret societies to global criminal enterprises reveals much about the turbulent ebbs and flows of Chinese history.

One question haunts many in Hong Kong: what does it mean to age well, professionally, in a city built on work?

What comes after the job that once defined you?

For a growing number of people in their forties and fifties, the answer is to seek a new purpose and a change in career.

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