Black Swan is already a multi-cultural group featuring Fatou, the first Senegalese K-pop singer, and Brazilian-Japanese Leia – but Hyeme quit in 2020 leaving a hole to fill Lenka, an 18-year-old ...

Gathered in a large, basement room, a dozen parliamentarians accompanied by another 100-odd Japanese yoga enthusiasts sat practising bhramari pranayama, before engaging in yogic calisthenics.

Japanese teens and twentysomethings who once had ears only for J-pop are now transfixed by K-pop, a phenomenon from South Korea that is taking the world’s second-biggest music market by storm.