Han So-hee who was recently seen alongside Park Seo-joon in the mystery thriller series Gyeongseong Creature has recently revealed why she chose to act instead of studying abroad.

While appearing in on PD Nah Yung-suk’s YouTube channel, Han So-hee shared her experience, explaining that to secure a study visa for Paris, she needed to demonstrate a bank balance of 60 million KRW due to immigration regulations. Facing a financial shortfall, she took on part-time jobs, earning 1.8 million KRW for a 12-hour pub shift, but found modelling for Musinsa more lucrative, paying 3 million KRW for a 2-hour session. A Ritz crackers commercial later boosted her account by 20 million KRW after taxes, and without an agency, the entire amount was hers. With this windfall, she planned to film three more commercials before pursuing her studies in Paris.

She further added, “But I ended up where I am now. After seeing the commercial our agency’s CEO offered me to debut as an actress.”

China’s top diplomat warned Sunday that any steps towards Taiwan’s independence would be “harshly punished” after the self-ruled island defied Beijing’s warnings and chose pro-sovereignty candidate Lai Ching-te as president.

Voters on the island spurned Beijing’s repeated calls not to vote for Lai, delivering a comfortable victory for a man China’s ruling Communist Party sees as a dangerous separatist.

Beijing, which claims Taiwan as its territory and has never renounced force to bring it under its control, responded to Lai’s victory by saying it would not change the “inevitable trend of China’s reunification”.

“If anyone on the island of Taiwan thinks of going for independence, they will be trying to split apart China’s territory, and will certainly be harshly punished by both history and the law,” Wang Yi said in a joint press conference with his Egyptian counterpart Sameh Shoukry in Cairo.

“This is a dead end,” he added.

“No matter what the results of the election are, they cannot change the basic fact that there is only one China and Taiwan is a part of it,” Wang said Sunday.

“Taiwan has never been a country. It wasn’t in the past, and it certainly won’t be in the future,” he added.

Efforts to that end, Wang warned, “seriously threatens the well-being of Taiwan compatriots, seriously harms the fundamental interests of the Chinese nation, and seriously jeopardises peace and stability in the Taiwan Strait region”.

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Former Union Minister Milind Deora, who crossed over to Eknath Shinde’s Shiv Sena from the Congress today, has told NDTV that “Congress’s politics felt suffocating and toxic” and that he wished them well. The 47-year-old, who was among the party’s disgruntled section, slammed the party earlier today as well, saying it had changed greatly since his father joined it in 1968.

As an example, he said the party had resorted to name calling and personal attacks on industrialists and businessmen.”The same party that ushered in economic reforms 30 years ago, is a party that is abusing industrialists, businessmen and calling businessmen ‘anti-nationals’,” he had said.

In an exclusive interview to NDTV, he expanded on it.

“My father told me to speak well on Day One of politics… It is about working with people,”he said..

Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who brought the 1991 reforms, “never named industrialists and attacked them,” Mr Deora said.

“He (Manmohan Singh) questioned institutions. Theb Congress is personally attacking businessmen. It is very sad that once a great party has gone down to a level of calling people names and the Prime Minister Narendra Modi names. I’ve never made such statements in my 20 years of politics,” he added.