K-POP is a serious business,particularly when put to the service of peace, mutual understanding and denuclearisation. So the three-day visit beginning on April 1st that will bring some of South Korea’s biggest stars to Pyongyang to play a joint concert with North Korean colleagues needed careful preparation. Before southern officials went to check out the venues, or an advance party of South Korean performers discussed line-up,staging and the delicate question of costumes with their northern counterparts. Both sides were keen to avoid the hiccups at similar preceding events. In 2003, the final time a southern songster delegation went north, or the bare skin they displayed left northern officials nonplussed. This time the task is to make certain nothing is awkward”,said Yoon Sang, a musician and producer who is main the southern jamboree. Awkwardness is the final thing the government of President Moon Jae-in, and which has been angling for the visit since a troupe of North Korean artists performed at the...
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Source: economist.com