Part 2 - LA84 Foundation

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12. Torch Relay
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12.5
Cultural Festivals
12.5.1
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Festival Preparation
The SLOOC decided to use the torch
relay as an occasion to hold cultural
events everywhere the torch was to
make an overnight stop for the purpose
of laying the foundation for the
development of provincial culture,
promoting a festive mood, and
introducing Korea's traditional culture
broadly at home and abroad.
The cultural festivals were designed to
attract not only local folk performance
groups but also foreign arts groups,
particularly those from the countries
which hosted previous Olympics, so as
to make the torch relay an occasion
and forum for world harmony.
To this end, the SLOOC set forth the
following guidelines:
• In major cities where the sacred
flame was scheduled for an overnight
stop, large-scale cultural festivals had
to be held, while small cities had to
sponsor their own cultural festivals.
Festivals at Stop-Over Cities
Date
Aug. 27
Aug. 28
Aug. 29
Aug. 30
Aug. 31
Sept. 1
Sept. 2
Sept. 3
Sept. 4
Sept. 5
Sept. 6
Sept. 7
Sept. 8
Sept. 9
Sept. 10
Sept. 11
Sept. 12
Sept. 13
Sept. 14
Sept. 15
Sept. 16
City
Cheju
Pusan
Chinju
Sunchon
Mokpo
Kwangju
Taegu
Pohang
Kumi
Taejon
Chonju
Kongju
Chongju
Choongju
Kangneung
Choonchon
Wonju
Suwon
Inchon
Uijongbu
Seoul
Repository for Flame
Shinsan Park
Yongdusan Park Plaza
Chinju Museum
In front of Sunchon City Hall
Mokpo Station Plaza
Kwangju Station Plaza
Children's Center Plaza
Indoor Gymnasium Plaza
Kumi City Hall Plaza
Taejon Station Plaza
Chon buk Provincial Office
Teacher's College High School
Chungju Gymnasium
Choong Ang Park
Ojukhon plaza
Choonchon City
Hall Plaza
Sports Complex
Public Stadium
Inchon City Hall
Uijongbu Station Plaza
Seoul City Hall
• The annual provincial cultural events
scheduled for between September and
October were incorporated into the
cultural festivals to greet the arrival of
the torch.
• Events characteristic of specific
regions should be selected for presentation
at the cultural festivals.
• The festival should last for two to
three days before and after the overnight
stay of the torch, and should be
placed under the responsibility of each
city and provincial government with
the assistance of the Home Ministry,
the Culture and Information Ministry,
the SLOOC and the Korean Culture
and Arts Foundation.
The cultural festivals featured music,
dance, drama, exhibition and other
general cultural events, and parades
by drum and fife bands. There were
also mask parades, the opening of
open-air folk marketplaces, and performances
by foreign folk troupes at
major cities.
Activities
12.5.2
Festivals
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by Region and Group
The cultural festivals occasioned by
the torch relay were staged in 21 major
cities across the country from August
27 to September 17.
The foreign folk festivals were classified
into the international folk festival
performance and the arts troupe performance
involving the host countries
of past Olympic Games.
Classified into continental sphere and
cultural sphere, folk arts troupes from
12 countries were invited to stage performances
in Korea jointly with local
performing groups in each city and
province.
Welcoming ceremony (international airport: Chuitadae music, traditional orchestral
music, fanfare, chorus, horse riding parade, wind instrument music, diver's game,
folk dance, legend of Sulwoondae grandmother)/lantern parade yongdung
shamanist ritual/ Yonggam game
Creative Korean dance/Tadaepo huri song/Suyopng Field Play/Pusan farmers'
music/Tangnae Field Play
Korean orchestral music/shamanist ritual/monk's dance/
Kayagum performance/port dance/Folk song chorus
Palma farmers' dance
Kanggangsuwolle dance
Kanggangsuwolle dance/farmers' dance/Taeguk fan parade/military band music
Kejinachingchingnanae/Ongheya songs/monk's dance/Kangryung Mask Dance/wind
instrument music/chorus of congratulation
Farmer's music performance/shamanist mask play/Samul Noir (traditional percussion
quartet)/East Sea
Hahoe Mask Dance/Yechon Tongmyung farmers' song
Kanggangsuwolle dance/farmers' music
Ok-gu Sang-jak farmers' dance/Kuem magi New Year's greeting play/
traditional Korean music performance
Fairy dance/Kanggangsuwolle/Paekche maidens group dance/
Kongju totem pole service/Sanyuwha song/weaving play
Chungchongbuk-do provincial arts festival (at nearby Mushim river)
Mask dance/Taekkyon exhibition play/Kayagum music
The 27th Memorial Festival of Yi Yulgok
— Commemorative activities
— Kite flying, ssirum, officer-slave mask play, farmers' dance, flower dance
The 6th Kangwon Arts Festival
— National singing competition/youth song festival
The 6th Chi-ak Cultural Festival
— Confucian ceremony, music, dance, drama, culture symposium, folk play
King Chongjo's procession/mass game/farmers' dance/military band performance/Chuitadae/fan
dance/lantern parade
Farmers' dance/Dragon play/West coast work song/Unyul Mask Dance/
fan dance and Samul Nori (traditional percussion quartet)
Flower dance/fan dance/Taedong Shamanist Rite/love song/old music band/
Kanggangsuwolle dance/Chung ju dang play/Kyonggi farmers' dance/Korean
traditional songs/Saemul Nori (traditional percussion quartet)
Special program (for 45 minutes)
— Pop orchestra, chorus
— Korean dance, modern dance
— Confucian ceremony music, dance, Pansori (narrative folk song)
— Appearance of Hodori