Hannah Waitt
Hannah was born in Austin and raised on live music, later attending the University of Texas where she wrote an award-winning thesis on the rise of Kpop. After graduation, Hannah wrote for Billboard Korea before continuing her studies of Music Business at NYU in New York City. There, Hannah interned briefly in the International Marketing department of Sony Music, and achieved her Master's degree by publishing yet another Kpop thesis, this time on the power of "superfans" in Korea. While at NYU, Hannah founded moonROK Media, Inc., the world's premier English source of Kpop news and entertainment. She now works full-time as CEO of moonROK, and recently moved to Seoul, South Korea to open up the company's offices there.
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