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As the year draws to a close, the cultural tapestry of traditional performances comes alive across national venues, offering a rich and diverse celebration through the year-end and New Year concerts to usher in the upcoming year. National Gugak Center revives traditional ‘Narye’ To ward off evil spirits on the eve of the year's end and welcome a peaceful new year, the traditional palace ritual know.
The National Changgeuk Company of Korea, which recently premiered its modern take on traditional changgeuk performances in “Jeong-nyeon” and “The Merchants of Venice,” returns with a traditional Korean pansori, “Shimcheong-ga” for the Chuseok holiday. The production is based on the classic Korean pansori and folktale of Sim Cheong, a young girl who makes a selfless sacrifice to the.
Fish markets are some of the most colorful and photogenic places in Seoul. They are a cornucopia of stimulation - the smell of fish; their vibrant colors, sizes and shapes; the yelling and chattering of potential sellers and buyers; the succulent taste of seafood in all varieties and styles of cooking (or raw); and, depending on what you touch, the ice, the slime, grit, oil and dirt found in similar markets.
Yoon Jeong-hee, one of the biggest stars of Korean cinema in the 1960s and 1970s, has died in Paris at the age of 78, according to her family on Friday.