Good evening,


one can argue about taste, even when it comes to music, fortunately.

The forthcoming K-Pop Festival in Frankfurt shows how global and yet nationally different the current music world is.

We'll explain a bit about this, look at a woman with a function in the Catholic Church and want to encourage you to quarrel amicably.

The overview at the end of the day with topics from the region, today again with a tip for the weekend.

Jacqueline Vogt

Department head of the Rhein-Main editorial team of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.

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Pop from South Korea:

Do you remember "Gangnam Style", a funny dance video by and starring Psy, a South Korean rapper?

It's a good ten years old now, if you don't know it: watch it on YouTube, it's guaranteed to put you in a good mood.

South Korean pop isn't just music, it's a way of life, a lifestyle.

A lively K-Pop scene has developed in the Rhine-Main region and some of the world's most popular bands are coming to the "KPop.Flex" festival in Frankfurt's Waldstadion on May 14th and 15th.

More than anything else, K-Pop stands for a fan culture that is characterized by a particularly close relationship with the so-called idols, the stars.

"As a fan, you are so far away and yet so close at the same time," says Linda Lee Rauthe.

The 24-year-old woman has been a K-pop fan for ten years,

traveled to South Korea with two friends when she was nineteen and works as a K-Pop dance teacher in Dieburg.

"The K-Pop idols do a lot for their fans, they are in a thousand shows and live streams," says Rauthe.

Due to their extraordinarily high media presence, especially on social media such as YouTube, Instagram and Tiktok, there is a close bond between the audience and these influencers, she says: "At some point you just know everything about them." About the phenomenon and the Scene in the Rhine-Main region reports Miriam Schröder.

News from the Catholic Church

: Stephanie Rieth is not a priest, if only because she is a woman.

Despite this, and precisely because of this, it has a function in the Diocese of Mainz that is unparalleled anywhere else.

Rieth holds the newly created office of authorized representative of the vicar general and head of department for the central department.

The task description for this, which the Bishop of Mainz, Peter Kohlgraf, laid down is remarkable.

The 47-year-old representative represents the Vicar General, Auxiliary Bishop Udo Bentz, not only in all matters externally and internally.

She also performs some of his tasks independently in his place.

Bernhard Biener writes how this came about and who Stephanie Rieth is.

Dialogue among readers:

"Germany speaks" is the name of a discussion format in which people with different views on a current topic can talk to each other.

For the fourth time, the FAZ and its readers are part of this campaign developed by "Zeit Online".

This year it's about the Ukraine war and its effects.

All readers of the FAZ can register for it by autumn, using the questions in our texts on FAZ.NET.

If you register once by answering all eight questions, you can be linked to a new conversation partner every week.

At the end of the day, an algorithm decides who comes together for a discussion; it is not age or status that is evaluated, but the controversial views.

And in addition

, employees of the main customs office in Frankfurt removed more than 26,000 kilograms of drugs worth around 129 million euros from circulation in 2021, including more than 22,000 kilograms of the chewing drug khat +++ Lufthansa announced on Thursday that thanks to increased demand its losses were contained to a minus of 584 million euros in the first quarter of 2022 +++ more than 20 million cut flowers were flown to Germany via Frankfurt Airport for the forthcoming Mother's Day on Sunday, most of them from Kenya, Ecuador and Zambia.

The tip for the weekend

The Rheingau Gourmet Weeks are coming to an end this Sunday, and anyone who hasn't been to Lorch yet should head to the westernmost town in Hesse, preferably by train.

In addition to the Wurm, Graf von Kanitz and Mohr wineries, we recommend the small Richard Weiler winery as an insider tip.

The wine cellar in a former slate quarry is a sight in itself.

In the glass, the wines reflect the character of the steep slopes interspersed with slate and quartzite.

In addition, the kitchen serves little things away from the mainstream of the ostrich inns.