Are you familiar with Baudeogi?

How about Eoreum (tightrope dancing)?

Anseong Namsadang Baudeogi Pungmul-dan Namsadang-nori ‘lecture concert’ at Gyeonggi Provincial Human Resource Development Institute.

The Gyeonggi Provincial Human Resource Development Institute holds cultural event during the last week of the every month in order to address demand among public officials and provincial residents for cultural events.

On May 28, a ‘lecture concert’ was held under the theme of “Namsadang-nori with Ansung Namsadang Baudeogi Pungmul-dan for Interaction”. The event was not only attended by the provincial public officials and residents, but also by Kurdistan Regional Government officials from Iraq and government officers from Shandong, China, who flew to Korea to receive training at the Gyeonggi Provincial Human Resource Development Institute. It was a valuable time since it provided an opportunity for us to introduce Korean cultural heritage to foreign nationals and promote their engagement at the event.

I was glad to hear the news about Baudeogi Pungmuldan coming, so I visited Gyeonggi Provincial Human Resource Development Institute right away.

“Enjoying the ‘lecture concert’ of Anseong Namsadang Baudeogi Pungmul-dan”

The ‘lecture concert’ is a program that combines art and literature – for instance, books and music, video and fine arts. The program effectively balances the combination of a lecture and concert.

▶ Nanta plays the world! Lecture concert with Song Seung-hwan

▶ Music interacts with sound! Lecture concert with the Gyeonggi Provincial Human Resource Development Institute

It was not the first time that the institute held a lecture concert.

The Gyeonggi Provincial Government, in fact, has been holding lecture concerts on diverse topics since last year.

Before the lecture concert began, the Gyeonggi Tourism Organization, which targeted “a fairy tale-like day”, held an event and offered leaflets along with gifts to increase public awareness of Gyeonggi tourism.

The Gyeonggi Provincial Human Resource Development Institute held a lecture featuring a narrative on the origin of Anseong Namsadang Baudeogi Pungmul-dan and Baudeogi for this month’s cultural event. The Namsadang performance then took place in the form of a lecture concert.

The event started off with a humorous lecture by Senior Member Lee Sang-chul of the Anseong City Baudeogi Pungmul-dan.

Through the lecture, I got to know that Namsadang, Korean Important Intangible Cultural Property No. 3 and a UNESCO World Heritage item, was a professional performing artist of the Joseon Dynasty and the country’s first-ever public entertainer. In addition, he narrated stories of Namsadang ogi Pungmul-nori based on Namsadang.

The leader of the Namsadang group is called Kkokduswei, and a new trainee who just joined the group is called Ppiri. I just learned that Goppiri, a Korean slang term for a high school, originated from this.

In the movie The King and the Clown, the character Jang Saeng asks: “How do you want to be reborn in the next life?” The participants gave witty answers.

“I want to born again as a mayor.”

“I want to born again as Wonbin.”

In addition, the foreigners’ hands-on experience with Korean culture got huge response as well.

The concert consisted of the following diverse sessions: exciting tightrope dancing, Pungmul-nori, Seoljang-go, Ttangjaeju, Beona running, back-riding play and 12-foot spinning hat performance, and more.

We refer to Eoreum as an act of narrowly walking on a tightrope, and we call tightrope dancers “Eoreumsan-ee”.

It is very difficult to run or fly even on the ground, but the scene of a dancer flying and running on a thin rope makes him look like a squirrel. I just could not stop applauding.

We call them “Namsadang” since there is no woman in the group. But, there is a woman in the group… What?

Like Eoreumsan-ee, the women have to dress up as men.

There are six basic devices: Pungmul, beona, silpang, eoreum, addition, deolmie.

The first performance, Pungmul, usually ends up in deolme.

It is so amazing to see how the beonas go up so high and come back to the people.

Now, it’s time for applause.

It was an Anseong Namsadang Baudeogi Pungmul-dan performance that brought everyone together.

We may have been more appreciative and familiar with the performance since it was Korean cultural music.

Even after the performance, the Korean and foreign attendees bonded.

The whole event was completed in warmth providing the foreign nationals with the opportunity to experience traditional entertainment in Korea with Koreans.

In addition, we took a celebratory picture with Kurdistan and Shandong government officials, who first looked a bit nervous but soon started to enjoy the performance.

I guess they have obtained another piece of happiness,

It is time for us to increase public awareness and appreciation through onsite cultural experiences.

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