Friday, 8 May 2009

"Puppet Festival Chuncheon" in South Korea

(Source: http://festival2.cocobau.com/community/comm03.asp?csno=&pg=1)

On this time, I would like to introduce representative Puppet Festival in South Korea. The title of Puppet Festival is “Puppet Festival Chuncheon.” “Chuncheon” is famous area for tourist attraction because of beautiful lakeside and location advantage: it is located in near the capital city: Seoul.

Puppet Festival Chuncheon is regarded a Mecca for puppetry as one of the best performing artistic festivals with its facilities, such as Chuncheon Puppet Theatre opened in 2001 and also Chuncheon Puppet Museum established in 2004,while showing its various kinds of accompanying events as well as puppet shows, which will make the Festival take off one stride forward.

Puppet Festival Chuncheon proceeded at Chuncheon Puppet Theatre as its central venue during August annually since 1989. The Puppet Festival Chuncheon, with its 20 years old, becomes a worldwide big fair for puppetry, altogether with puppeteers local and overseas, while providing the audience with lots of artistic and interesting events and fun, as well as its renowned puppet shows.

The Chuncheon Puppet Theatre, established in 2001 with its best equipment and facilities, considered as the largest cultural center for kids in Korea as well as a major center puppetry in the world.

Due to the advantages: the location in tourist attraction and the seasonal time for summer holiday with family, the Puppet Festival has been popular more and more. It can be the good case of that the festival related with tourism.

2 comments:

MURIEL* HUANG said...

Dear Su,
I like the topic you choose for the puppet festival, also, i would like to introduce the International Children's Folklore & Folkgame Festival in Taiwan, this is the most popular children's festival in Taiwan, and, last ten years, there had more than five million people from oversea and Taiwan to visit this festival, and invited more than one hundred performance teams to Taiwan, but, finally, this festival was stop to held because of something government policy, therefore, i hope that you can researched about this and find out some useful information about how to make the children's festival keep lastting. :]

SUYEON,KIM said...

Oh! Thank you so much!
It's very useful information for me! ^^ thanks~