Performance and Experience of Korean Traditional Musical Instrument
Ichon Ceramic Village
Concert (NANTA)
Hanbok (Korean traditional costume) Wearing Experience
Takwondo

(1) Performance and Experience of Korean Traditional Musical Instrument

      
The students watch the performance by Chung-Ang traditional Korean musical orchestra, then learn to play traditional Korean musical instrument under the guidance of Chung Ang University.

(2) Ichon Ceramic Village

     
Ichon Ceramic Village, situated in Saum 2-ri, Ichon-up, Ichon City, is the other xunter of Korean ceramic culture. This region inherited its tradition of ceramic art from the Punwon kilns of the Kwangju region. Today the nation's renowned ceramists pour their efforts into reviving the aesthetics of the Choson white porcelains. There are 150 kilns in the region. The Haegang Ceramic Museum features exqui-site works shaped by master hands. This ceramic village offers you demonstration of the making of ceramics and even lets you experience it with your own hands. A cornucopia of ceramic articles is sold at good prices. The annual Ichon Ceramic Festival also provides tourists with diverse ceramic works and folklore events.

(3) Concert (NANTA)

     
NANTA is a non-verbal performance for everyone, comically describing what is happening in a kitchen based on the rhythms of Samulnori, a renowned Korean traditional performance. It drew the largest number of audiences in the history of Korean performances, establishing a new record since its first debut in 1997. NANTA has received the best score in the Edinburgh Festival 1999 and began to achieve an international reputation by a series of successful performances abroad inJapan, Britain, Germany, USA, Austria, Italy, Taiwan, Australia, Russia, China and the Netherlands. Based on this bright success, NANTA has started its no-time-limit long term performance in its own theater in Broadway, USA, the home of the musicals since 2004, for the first time of its kind of Asia.
NANTA has been selected as "10 Major Tourist Attractions of Seoul" by Korea Tourism Organization and now became one of the cultural products representing Korea.

(4) Hanbok (Korean traditional costume) Wearing Experience

     
Hanbok means literally "Korean dress," the traditional clothing that Koreans have worn through the ages. Hanbok is also the national dress that Koreans often use to express their sense of identity. The basic traditional costume of Korea consists of a jacket and trouser for men, and a jacket and skirt for women, while both men and women wear overcoats and headgear. The basic pattern of the traditional Korean dress developed under the influence of the northern has changed little to the present day. The International exchange students have a enjoyable time while they learn how to wear Hanbok and take photos of themselves in it. All of them unmistakably comment that Hanbok is beautiful.

(5) TAEKWONDO

     
Taekwondo is a bare handed military art form and sport of Korea that uses the hands and feet for attack and defense. The focus of Taekwondo is on training the mind along with the body, and for those learning the martial art it plays four different roles. Together with University Taekwondo club, 'Lalfaram', the International Center provide an opportunity to learn and experience essence of the Korean Martial art.

(6) International Bazzar (Video Version)