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Seoul, [b] officially Seoul Special Metropolitan City, [c] is the capital and largest city of South Korea.The broader Seoul Metropolitan Area, encompassing Seoul, Gyeonggi Province and Incheon, [8] emerged as the world's sixth largest metropolitan economy in 2022, trailing behind Paris, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Tokyo, and New York, and hosts more than half of South Korea's population.
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Nongak, community band music, dance and rituals in the Republic of Korea 2014 00717: Pungmul (풍물) or nongak is a Korean folk music tradition that includes drumming, dancing, and singing. Tugging rituals and games + [a] 2015 01080: Tugging rituals and games in the rice-farming cultures are enacted to ensure abundant harvests and prosperity.
Seoul Festival showcasing a wide array of cultural and art performances. By 2013, the focus was narrowed to street art performances. The name was changed to the Seoul Street Arts Festival in 2016 to reflect this focus. As it has grown, the festival has become the center for contemporary street arts in Asia, giving acts chances for global ...
Sejong Center for the Performing Arts (Korean: 세종문화회관) is the largest arts and cultural complex in Seoul, South Korea. It has an interior area of 53,202m². It is situated in the center of the capital, on Sejongno, a main road that cuts through the capital city of the Joseon Dynasty. The center took 4 years to complete, opening in 1978.
Inaugurated in December 1979, KCCNY works to establish and promote Korean culture and aesthetics in New York through diverse cultural and artistic activities including gallery exhibitions, performing arts concerts, film festivals, and educational programs. The current executive director is Cheon-soo Kim.
The Seoul Arts Center (SAC; Korean: 예술의 전당) is an arts complex in Seocho District, Seoul, South Korea. It consists of five main buildings: the Opera House, with three auditoriums ; the Music Hall, with two concert halls; the Hangaram Art Museum; the Hangaram Design Museum; and the Seoul Calligraphy Art Museum.
Music festivals in South Korea may focus on Korean musicians or international musicians, and may be either in a concert or music competition format, or both. South Korea has folk festivals incorporating Korean traditional music , which includes combinations of the folk, vocal, religious and Korean ritual music styles of the Korean people ...