BTS hit Dynamite on the radio in Beijing brings hope of further thaw in China-South Korea relations after 2016 missile row

• A long time coming, Metro Radio’s first playing of Dynamite, the new single from K-pop supergroup BTS, is taken as a sign of Sino-Korean cultural thaw
• An academic based in China notes that popular interest there in Korean pop music and dramas has never dimmed despite the countries’ frosty relations