Julie Kim from the Seychelles Tourism Board Korea based Office has today confirmed that a Korean Delegation is flying in from Seoul, Korea to participate in the 2012 Carnival being staged in Seychelles. The Korean Procession team will have a decorated truck featuring Korean traditional items and will have Korean traditional percussionists on board.
The Korean Delegation will also perform at the Carnival?s Official Opening Ceremony and the Family fun day as well as the Carnival Procession.
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The theme of the performance is ?Korean Traditional Music, ?Samoolnori,? falls in love with Seychelles Victoria Carnival.
The Korean Traditional Performing Art Troupe, the Nanjang & Pan, has seven years of history since 2004, and is a traditional Korean folk music performance troupe.
They focus their performance on ?samoolnori (4 kinds percussion instrument performance) and other traditional performing arts and entertainment programs. Korean traditional culture and performing arts are no longer a fossilized legacy inherited from our ancestors in the distant past but a freshening icon of long established culture with plenty of vitality, excitement, and humor ingrained thought the whole gamut of artistic approaches to living in the vortex of work and labor.
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This troupe has won the Republic of Korea Presitential Award (Grand Prix), the 17th Buyeo World Samoolnori Competition in 2008. This folk culture-oriented organization was authorized as a Korean traditional performing arts troupe in 2009. They had performed in other major countries as Australia, Germany, Canada, China, Japan, Indonesia and etc.
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The Seychelles Tourism Board has welcomed the confirmation as the arrival of the Koreans will further enhance the melting pot of culture theme displayed by the Carnaval International de Victoria. ?We are indeed happy with this announcement because we wanted to raise our visibility in Korea. Their participation will bring about press coverage in Korea and the neighboring countries and this will help the tourism industry in Seychelles get more known? Alain St.Ange, CEO of the Seychelles Tourism Board said.
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