{"id":410084,"date":"2026-01-15T03:45:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T03:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/410084\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T03:45:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T03:45:07","slug":"takaichi-and-lee-warm-up-in-a-jam-session-at-their-summit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/410084\/","title":{"rendered":"Takaichi and Lee warm up in a jam session at their summit"},"content":{"rendered":"

TOKYO (AP) \u2014 The Japanese and South Korean leaders agreed to deepen cooperation between their countries before they let loose with their own surprise cultural exchange in a surprise jam session drumming to K-pop hits.<\/p>\n

The musical performance between Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi and South Korean President Lee Jae Myung followed Tuesday\u2019s summit<\/a> in Japan\u2019s ancient capital of Nara, also Takaichi\u2019s hometown. <\/p>\n

Wearing personalized athletic jackets, they sat side by side and drummed to hits such as BTS\u2019 \u201cDynamite\u201d and Kpop Demon Hunters\u2019 \u201cGolden\u201d in a short video posted by Takaichi\u2019s office Wednesday.<\/p>\n

The jam session was a surprise by Takaichi, a heavy metal fan and an avid drummer in her college days. <\/p>\n

\u201cPlaying the drums has been my longtime dream,\u201d Lee said on X, thanking Takaichi\u2019s hospitality for arranging the jam session.<\/p>\n

\u201cLike we respected our differences and harmonized our rhythms, I hope that Korea and Japan would deepen cooperation and move closer to each other step by step,\u201d Lee said. <\/p>\n

Takaichi, in a video, complimented Lee as a fast learner, saying he learned to play the drums in just a few minutes.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn order to develop Japan-South Korea relations in a forward-looking way and stably, we will continue our close communication between the two governments including by proactively carrying out our \u2018shuttle diplomacy,\u2019\u201d Takaichi said in a message on X.<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

Associated Press writer Hyung-jin Kim in Seoul, South Korea, contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TOKYO (AP) \u2014 The Japanese and South Korean leaders agreed to deepen cooperation between their countries before they…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":410085,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[49,48,361,75,2841,2454,21777,341,71246,18262,883],"class_list":{"0":"post-410084","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-celebrities","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-general-news","13":"tag-japan","14":"tag-lee-jae-myung","15":"tag-music","16":"tag-sanae-takaichi","17":"tag-south-korea","18":"tag-world-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=410084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410084\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/410085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=410084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=410084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=410084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}