After hours of discussing nuclear weapons, economic security, and rare minerals, the leaders of Japan and South Korea decided to let loose. In an impromptu act of harmony, Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi of Japan and President Lee Jae Myung of South Korea hit the drums, belting out K-pop hits, including BTS’ Dynamite and Kpop Demon Hunters’ Golden.

The jam session followed a recent summit held in Takaichi’s hometown of Nara, an ancient capital in southeastern Japan. For the performance, both leaders sat side by side and donned personalized track jackets emblazoned with their names written in cursive. The Japanese prime minister had hatched the idea herself, as a nod to her love of heavy metal and her past as an amateur drummer throughout her college days. But, beyond that, she also knew that playing the drums was a longtime dream of Lee’s.

The jam session followed a recent summit held in Takaichi’s hometown of Nara, an ancient capital in southeastern Japan. For the performance, both leaders sat side by side and donned personalized track jackets emblazoned with their names written in cursive. The Japanese prime minister had hatched the idea herself, as a nod to her love of heavy metal and her past as an amateur drummer throughout her college days. But, beyond that, she also knew that playing the drums was a longtime dream of Lee’s.

“When we met at APEC last year, [Lee] said it was his dream to play the drums, so we prepared a surprise,” Takaichi wrote in a social media post. The concert, which lasted about 20 minutes, culminated in the leaders exchanging signed drumsticks, and Lee receiving one of the drum kits as a gift from Takaichi. […]

More: https://mymodernmet.com/sanae-takaichi-lee-jae-myung-drum-duet/