Trotting ahead of K-pop? South Korean crooner rivals BTS

Once dismissed and widely ridiculed as music for pensioners, trot blends traditional Korean music with elements of Western jazz, swing and Japanese Enka. But 33-year-old Lim is one of a fresh crop of younger artists breathing new life into the genre, with its melodramatic ballads and upbeat tunes finding massive audiences in the South, helped by a wave of reality television shows. The original and most successful of these, "Mr Trot" was won by Lim in 2020, with more than a third of all South Korean...