Koreans dominate singing competition
OperaThe Hans Gabor Belvedere Singing Competition has been won by the South Korean baritone Jungrae Noah Kim.
Of the 121 contestants from 39 nations who made it into the finals in the Latvian town of Jurmala, 20 were South Korean, 15 were from Ukraine and ten from China.
No Italians?? Opera is their national heritage.
South Korean musicians are dominating most of the world’s most important competitions, and the concert circuit in general. There’s gotta be something in their drinking water – someone should bottle and commercialize it!