'Coolest thing': B-boys and B-girls have arrived as breakdancing wows Asian Games ahead of Olympic bow

South Korea's Kim Hongyul competes during the men's round robin group battles for breakdancing at the 19th Asian Games in Hangzhou, China, Friday, Oct. 6, 2023. AP

HANGZHOU, China (AFP): When South Korean Kim Hong-yul was a teenager in the late 1990s, hip-hop ruled the airwaves and breakdancing was "the coolest thing in the world", he says.

Now the acrobatic dance style, which originated on the streets of 1970s New York, is at the Asian Games for the first time and will also debut next year at the Olympics.