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Korean Embassy Holds Cultural Festival at CCP
Korean Embassy Holds Cultural Festival
To culminate the year-long celebrations of the 60th Anniversary of the Philippines-Korea Diplomatic Relations, the Embassy of the Republic of Korea will hold a cultural festival at the Tanghalang Nicanor Abelardo (Main Theater) of the Cultural Center of the Philippines.
The Korean Cultural Festival will feature unique traditional and modern cultural performances. On 25 November 2009, the Embassy will host a cocktail reception to formally open the cultural festival. The opening ceremony will be headed by Minister In-Chon Yu of the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism of the Republic of Korea, and Executive Secretary Eduardo R. Ermita of the Republic of the Philippines. The reception will be immediately followed by a gala concert titled “Dance of Chun-Hyang” performed by the National Dance Company of Korea (NDCK). The NDCK is the best Korean traditional dance company which has acted as the cultural ambassador of the Republic of Korea by maintaining and re-creating traditional Korean dance and participating in international festivals like the Olympic Games and the 2002 World Cup Soccer Tournament.
On 26 November 2009, Noreum-Machi will stage a captivating virtuosic percussion performance known as Samulnori, a modernized stage adaptation of p’ungmul nori which is a ritualistic celebration which originated from shamanism and animism and which is performed by rice farmers and professional musicians at harvest festivals. Noreum-Machi’s colorful program includes spectacular percussion dialogues, shamanic chants, and acrobatic dances.
Capping off the cultural festival is a KPop Concert at 5:00 pm on 27 November 2009. The concert will feature performances by famous Korean pop groups SHINee, Mighty Mouth and Winterplay. SHINee is a contemporary R&B South Korean boy band who made their debut in 2008 with their hit song “Replay” and composed of Onew, Jonghyun, Key, Minho and Taemin. The group won music awards including Best Newcomer Artist in the 18th Seoul Music Awards. Winterplay is a group that mixes several musical genres like pop, jazz, blues and bossa nova to create a unique relaxed sound and is composed of vocalist Moon Hye-won, and her band Lee Joo-han (trumpet), Choi Woo-joon (guitar), and So Eun-kyu (contrabass). Mighty Mouth is a rap duo well-known for collaborating with famous celebrities like Sun-Ye of Wondergirls and Yoon Eun-hye of Coffee Prince fame and composed of rappers 237 and Shorty j.
Admission to the Korean Cultural Festival is free. Tickets are available at the CCP. Tickets for the KPop concert are directly distributed by Arirang TV and its partners in the Philippines.
The Philippines-Korea Friendship Parade scheduled on 27 November 2009 has been cancelled. Since the 27th of November has been recently declared as a non-working holiday only in the ARMM and an ordinary working day for the rest of the country, the Embassy worried that holding a street parade in the middle of a workday would cause heavy traffic to the city and inconvenience to the people of Manila. Hence the concern for the inconvenience was too big to proceed as scheduled, we decided to cancel this time for the sake of the people in Manila. Instead, the Friendship Parade is being considered to reschedule to next year, at a more convenient date when the Philippines and Korea will commemorate the 60th year of the participation of Filipino soldiers in the Korean War.
To culminate the year-long celebrations of the 60th Anniversary of the Philippines-Korea Diplomatic Relations, the Embassy of the Republic of Korea will hold a cultural festival at the Tanghalang Nicanor Abelardo (Main Theater) of the Cultural Center of the Philippines.
The Korean Cultural Festival will feature unique traditional and modern cultural performances. On 25 November 2009, the Embassy will host a cocktail reception to formally open the cultural festival. The opening ceremony will be headed by Minister In-Chon Yu of the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism of the Republic of Korea, and Executive Secretary Eduardo R. Ermita of the Republic of the Philippines. The reception will be immediately followed by a gala concert titled “Dance of Chun-Hyang” performed by the National Dance Company of Korea (NDCK). The NDCK is the best Korean traditional dance company which has acted as the cultural ambassador of the Republic of Korea by maintaining and re-creating traditional Korean dance and participating in international festivals like the Olympic Games and the 2002 World Cup Soccer Tournament.
On 26 November 2009, Noreum-Machi will stage a captivating virtuosic percussion performance known as Samulnori, a modernized stage adaptation of p’ungmul nori which is a ritualistic celebration which originated from shamanism and animism and which is performed by rice farmers and professional musicians at harvest festivals. Noreum-Machi’s colorful program includes spectacular percussion dialogues, shamanic chants, and acrobatic dances.
Capping off the cultural festival is a KPop Concert at 5:00 pm on 27 November 2009. The concert will feature performances by famous Korean pop groups SHINee, Mighty Mouth and Winterplay. SHINee is a contemporary R&B South Korean boy band who made their debut in 2008 with their hit song “Replay” and composed of Onew, Jonghyun, Key, Minho and Taemin. The group won music awards including Best Newcomer Artist in the 18th Seoul Music Awards. Winterplay is a group that mixes several musical genres like pop, jazz, blues and bossa nova to create a unique relaxed sound and is composed of vocalist Moon Hye-won, and her band Lee Joo-han (trumpet), Choi Woo-joon (guitar), and So Eun-kyu (contrabass). Mighty Mouth is a rap duo well-known for collaborating with famous celebrities like Sun-Ye of Wondergirls and Yoon Eun-hye of Coffee Prince fame and composed of rappers 237 and Shorty j.
Admission to the Korean Cultural Festival is free. Tickets are available at the CCP. Tickets for the KPop concert are directly distributed by Arirang TV and its partners in the Philippines.
The Philippines-Korea Friendship Parade scheduled on 27 November 2009 has been cancelled. Since the 27th of November has been recently declared as a non-working holiday only in the ARMM and an ordinary working day for the rest of the country, the Embassy worried that holding a street parade in the middle of a workday would cause heavy traffic to the city and inconvenience to the people of Manila. Hence the concern for the inconvenience was too big to proceed as scheduled, we decided to cancel this time for the sake of the people in Manila. Instead, the Friendship Parade is being considered to reschedule to next year, at a more convenient date when the Philippines and Korea will commemorate the 60th year of the participation of Filipino soldiers in the Korean War.