King Charles offered a speech with references to K-pop culture at a grand Buckingham Palace state banquet for South Korea‘s President tonight.
Speaking to greater than 300 state banquet guests, consisting of vocalist BLACKPINK, he invited them with a touch of Korean: ‘Yeong- gug-e osin geos-eul hwan-yeonghabnida [Welcome to Britain].’
Marking the 140th wedding anniversary of Korea’s polite partnership with the UK, the King defined it as a ‘collaboration in which close individual links, cultivated over several years, have actually developed today right into a genuine feeling of love, or jeong, in between our cultures at numerous degrees’.
And he even joked about his very own visit to the nation in 1992 with the late Princess Diana, stating: ‘Sadly, when I remained in Seoul all those years earlier, I am unsure I created a lot of what could be called the Gangnam Style!’
The King highlighted the ‘exceptional trip’ Korea …