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King Charles deploys K-pop at South Korea state banquet

查爾斯國王在英國白金漢宮國宴上發揮韓國流行文化的作用

By Sean Coughlan

肖恩·考蘭報導

Royal correspondent

皇室記者

King Charles used the grandeur of a Buckingham Palace state banquet to throw in some unexpected references to Korean popular culture.

查爾斯國王在白金漢宮的一場盛大國宴上，突然提到了一些與韓國流行文化有關的內容。

K-pop stars Blackpink and BTS were name-checked by the King as he welcomed South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol on the first day of his state visit.

在韓國總統尹錫悅進行國事訪問的第一天，國王在歡迎詞中點名了K-pop明星Blackpink和BTS。

The King's banquet speech praised South Korean culture's "remarkable ability to captivate imaginations".

Although he admitted he hadn't much of "what might be called Gangnam Style".

國王在國宴上的演講讚揚了韓國文化“驚人的吸引想像力的能力”。 儘管他承認自己對於“所謂的江南Style”了解不多。

But there was no repeat of President Yoon's karaoke-style skills when he visited US President Joe Biden, when the South Korean leader had sung "American Pie".

但尹總統沒有重複他在訪問美國總統喬·拜登時卡拉OK風格的表演，當時這位南韓領導人演唱了《美國派》。

Instead the president said that in his youth he and his friends "were all fans of the Beatles, Queen and Elton John". With the assumption that this was a reference to the pop group rather than the monarchy.

相反，尹總統表示在他年輕時，他和他的朋友們“都是披頭四、英國女王和艾爾頓·強爵士的粉絲”。假設這是提及流行音樂團體，而非談到君主制。

原文及圖片出處https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-67492559