{"id":225518,"date":"2026-01-14T13:17:05","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T09:17:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=225518"},"modified":"2026-01-14T13:23:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T09:23:09","slug":"drum-duet-featuring-leaders-of-japan-and-south-korea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/225518\/","title":{"rendered":"Drum duet featuring leaders of Japan and South Korea"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Decked out in matching blue jackets, Japan’s Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi and South Korean President Lee Jae Myung on Tuesday played drums to the beats of K-pop hits, the BBC<\/a> writes.<\/p>\n

A surreal drum duet between two East Asian world leaders has set the internet abuzz – and put a spotlight on Japan and South Korea’s diplomatic relationship.<\/p>\n

The performance, a nod to Takaichi’s past life as a drummer in a heavy metal band, wrapped up Lee’s official visit to Japan this week.<\/p>\n

It’s also part of Lee’s diplomatic overtures to regional powers including Japan.<\/p>\n

During Lee’s visit to Nara, Takaichi’s hometown, he gifted the Japanese prime minister a drum set. The two leaders also exchanged signed drumsticks after their performance.<\/p>\n

“When we met at APEC last year, [Lee] said it was his dream to play the drums, so we prepared a surprise,” Takaichi later wrote on X.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Decked out in matching blue jackets, Japan’s Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi and South Korean President Lee Jae Myung on Tuesday played drums to the beats of K-pop hits, the BBC writes. A surreal drum duet between two East Asian world leaders has set the internet abuzz – and put a spotlight on Japan and South […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":225511,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,43,98],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-225518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world","category-other-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225518"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":225521,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225518\/revisions\/225521"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}