Lee Ae-ju, master of religious folk dance Seungmu, dies at 73
Posted : 2021-05-11 15:02
Updated : 2021-05-11 17:39 Lee Ae-ju, a master of religious folk dance Seungmu and chairperson of the Gyeonggi Arts Center, performs at Seoul Plaza on June 9, 2007, during an event to mark the 20th anniversary of the death of Lee Han-yeol, a student activist who died after being hit by a tear gas canister fired by riot police in July 1987. Lee Ae-ju, a master of religious folk dance Seungmu and who is famous for performing at pro-democracy protests, died of cancer, Monday. She was 73. Yonhap
By Park Ji-won
Lee Ae-ju, a cultural icon of the pro-democracy movement in the 1970s and 1980s and master of religious folk dance Seungmu, died of cancer, Monday. She was 73.