Profile | How Got7’s Jackson Wang went from Hong Kong fencing prodigy to global music icon

22/05/2026 2 Views

This is the 77th instalment in a biweekly series profiling major Hong Kong pop culture figures of recent decades.

If your radar picked up even a blip of K-pop in the mid-2010s, you probably encountered Jackson Wang Ka-yee long before you realised he was a Hong Kong native.

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