The Hahoe masks have a massive significance in Koran culture; the original masks have even been designated national treasure No.121. I have already been to many places (other than the Maskdance festival) where you can buy copies of the masks (some better made than others!). The man who developed the … Read More
After spending the afternoon sitting in the sun it was time to re-hydrate before heading back to the Madkdance arena for the evenings entertainment. First we watched Malayisa, whilst their dancing was mesmerizing and their costumes amazing I feel I should dedicate this post to origins of the second performance … Read More
After sitting in the sun for half an hour we were handed a leaflet by a tall thin lady who at the time we just presumed to be Korean! We later discovered she was an America who had been living in Korea for the last 13 years! The leaflet told … Read More
After familiarising ourselves with the festival and spending a small fortune it was time to watch some dancing. We got up early and headed for the festival site ready to catch Sri Lanka on the Maskdance stage at 11:30am. We entered the Maskdance arena and discovered it was set out … Read More
After having a ‘little sleep’ (literally 15 minutes) at the hotel we headed back to the festival site for the evenings entertainment. We had picked out something on the program called ‘Maskdance Competition’ and figured it would be worth a look. We got to the stage and found it surrounded … Read More
Our first full day in Andong and it was time to find the festival site. This looked set to be quite an adventure after the fun and games we had finding the hotel! From the main street we could see massive balloons in the air with the festival logon on, … Read More
We arrived in Andong and made our way out of the station and onto the street. Our map (printed from the hotel website) showed the hotel should be about 500 yards down the road from the train station and opposite the bus station. We came to the bus station were … Read More
Just a short post to apologise for not updating this blog much latley. Things have been very busy. I moved house last Sunday and it was soooooo dirty I have spent the last week cleaning it in preperation for Katrina’s arrival later today. Also I was ill last week and … Read More
The maskadance festival seems ages ago now, but this is the first opportunity I have had to blog it, so here is the first installment. We left on the Tuesday of Ch’usok ? a good day because it was before the Koreans started traveling as many of them had to … Read More
Sitting in a disruptive class trying to ignore the messing around it occurred to me that I was suddenly on the other side of the black board (so to speak). After spending what feels like my whole life (well I guess technically it has been my whole life) in education … Read More