South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol wowed Americans with his karaoke game during his six-day trip to the U.S., but concerns have been raised back home about the nuclear assurances provided to Seoul by President Biden’s team.
wowed Americans with his karaoke game during his six-day trip to the U.S., but concerns have been raised back home about the nuclear assurances that President Biden’s team provided., whom some consider stuffy and who made some diplomatic gaffes early in his tenure. He turned up the charm by singing the opening lines of Don McLean’s classic “American Pie” at the White House state dinner and later told Americans what they like to hear in a joint speech to Congress.
“When drinking, we always had to be ready to sing a song. There was a bit of peer pressure to sing on any drinking occasion, so some people practiced it as a survival skill,” said Yang Sun-mook, a former adviser on foreign affairs to the opposition Democratic Party of Korea. “If you want to be an excellent boss, you have to excel in some entertaining stuff. Either you should sing or dance great or be a stand-up comedian. It’s a gung-ho kind of style in Korea.
With this year marking the 70th anniversary of the bilateral alliance — dating to 1953, when the Korean War armistice was signed — the feel-good vibes continued in Mr. Yoon’s address on Capitol Hill.
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