Sunday, May 31, 2009

Gangneung Dano Festival

So I went up to Gangneung yesterday. It's the only thing close to a real city in this area, but it's still only about 200,000 people. Every year they have Danoje, which is one of the larger festivals in Korea.
From what I could see, it seemed to consist, like most Korean festivals, of traditional drumming and people wearing traditional masks performing some kind of play. I've never been able to sit through a whole play, because they seem to be written for 2 year-olds and so I lose interest very quickly. I'm sure they're much more profound than that, and I'm obviously missing something.
One of the performances included these 2 boys - you can see how excited they are to be participating.

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