School of Korean Traditional Arts Presents Performances for the 60 Years of Friendship with Columbia and Bogota International Book Fair

From Tuesday, 26 April to Wednesday, 3 May, the School of Korean Traditional Arts visited Bogota, Colombia, and staged the percussion performance celebrating the 60th anniversary of the Korea-Colombia friendship and invitation performance for the Bogota International Book Fair (FILBo; Feria Internacional del Libro de Bogota). 

As a part of the “K-Arts Wave” project, granted by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism of Korea, with the cooperation of the Asia-Iberoamerican Culture Foundation (FCAI), the School of Korean Traditional Arts also presents performances and educational workshops for the local students of the University of Los Andes and the University of Jorge Tadeo Lozano. The percussion concert planned for these events is a new Korean playing with three chapters consisting of diverse Korean traditional performances – pungmul, mask dance, and shaman ritual performance – combined with break dancing.

During the visit to Colombia, the School of Korean Traditional Arts also ran educational workshops and lecture concerts on the traditional Korean play and introduced the various contents related. The event is anticipated to help increase and spread the understanding of Korean culture in South American countries. The K-Arts also aims to introduce the Korean culture to the region in pursuit of activating arts education exchange with the higher education institutions in South America.