Spacecraft touches down in Gyeongbokgung for Royal Culture Festival

A hanbok fashion show unfolds on a space station-like stage set along the “king’s road”: a DJ mixes traditional Korean music with electronic dance beats, dancers join hands and move in a widening circle to a hip-hop rhythm as they sing “Ganggangsullae.” “At first glance, it may look like a space station,” said Yang Jeong-woong, the artistic director of this year’s Royal Culture Festival opening ceremony, as he described the stage. “Along the royal pathway, Korean and foreign-national models will

By The Korea Herald