Restaurants serving Japanese food are easy to find in Seoul and bustling on weekends, while J-pop is growing in popularity among South Korea's youths.
SEOUL: Japan ese songs sung by Japan ese singers live on a South Korea n television network would have been unthinkable a few years ago.
It started airing in May after another programme with a similar theme ended its run earlier this year with a positive reception from the audience. Wounds dating back more than a century still linger between the two nations, when South Korea was under 35 years of Japanese colonisation. Japanese singer Utagokoro Rie, also a participant on the show, said she was not aware of the grim past between the two countries before making her first ever trip to South Korea for the programme.
South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol shakes hands with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida during a joint press conference in Seoul, South Korea, May 27, 2024. "It can be highly regarded that exchanges of people and goods between South Korea and Japan have been fully restored,” said Yang Kee-ho, a Japanese studies professor at Sungkonghoe University.
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