Breakdancing wows Asian Games ahead of Olympic bow

Artistic: Mongolia’s Khandjav Myagmarjav competes during the women’s breakdancing event in the Asian Games on Friday. — AP

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.