The 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.
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