The hidden Jem, Dongrae Eumseong History Festival - The best festival I've ever been
: How do I have to start telling about this festival. OK, let's start it with the best one in this festival, the Dongrae Castle War Musical. It was really high quality of musical, which you can see with about 20,000 or 30,000 won ticket. It was so fantastic. The music, performance and the sets almost all were perfect to me. Even I almost cried out... as a man I had to suppress my feelings there...
And I rarely seen foreigners there, just a few... why??? This is fantastic.... why?
1 | The musical |
I came to know that this is a musical by a professional play team. If I am not mistaken, the performance will be on a play. I don't know where...I've seen a poster there. Anyway, the performance is about the war of Japanese invasion which happened there(dongrae eupseong) long ago. It is to remember people and Song Sanghyun, the military official who died while defending the fortress. Usually, if a performance is done in a local festival, row and amateur quality is expected. But this was far beyond my expectations. The actors and actresses did very well and the music was so good. Because of the acting, I could feel the mood there and came to the state that I almost burst into tears...
This is the link of the festival: http://www.dongnae.go.kr/festival/index.dongnae?contentsSid=169
Why there are almost Koreans... I mean just few foreign tourists there. Why? This quality of performance should be known among tourists... And also as a Korean, I didn't know that... I guess Dongrae didn't do efforts for advertisement enough... which means they focused on the quality more, invested money for the quality... Yes, right. And other performance was also good.
Yes, this was the main performance... main..
Video
There were other things going on in which you can participate such as making an artifact, tasting some tea, wearing Hanbok(Korean traditional costume) and doing makeup of chosun dynasty.... Among them, the makeup was the best.... which I've never seen in other festivals.
2 | Other events. |
The promotional video
Summary
Date: Oct 11, 2019(Fri.) to Oct. 13 2019(Sun)
Place: Dongragu, Dongrae eupseong
Main programs: Dongra busa parade, Dongrae Fortress War Musical ‘Lonely fortress’
Main programs: Meeting 1592 Chosun, Dongrae, Let's be a person of Chosun Dynasty and so on.
Culture and Performances: Opening ceremony(Fireworks, Musical Dongrae Fortress war), Dongrae Dragon King Parade and so on.
Participation and Experience programs: 15 different kinds of programs.
Additional programs: 5 different kinds.
The following is the gift I've got after finishing quests. It's a lamp which make your room moody.
And there were so many things to do and to see... in the festival... And also there is a place for food which has reasonable price. The following is the booths which I liked most there. You can were Korean hanbok and then wear Korean traditional makeup there.
See the following pictures...
