Lai Frances to be an Otakon 2022 Guest

Journalist and producer Lai Frances has been added to the official guest list for Otakon 2022 the convention has announced.

Lai is a multimedia journalist and producer who focuses on music, pop culture, and entertainment. She is currently a social media producer at CNET by day and a contributing writer/host by night, talking about music and K-pop. You can find some of her bylines on MTV News, “Teen Vogue,” PopCrush, tmrw, and “Glamour” while being a host for KCON and NME.

She was first exposed to K-pop in the early 2000s and didn’t really dive deep into the culture until the latter half of the 2000s, where she started off blogging about it, eventually leading to where she is now. To date, Lai has written special features on K-pop acts such as TWICE, aespa, ITZY, Stray Kids, Sunmi, and Tiffany Young while writing cover stories featuring ATEEZ, Jackson Wang and more.

Otakon 2022 takes place July 29th to 31st in Washington, DC at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center.