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A Festival of Masks

A story on Korean Mask dances photographed for the KAL inflight magazine Morning Calm.

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A Festival of Masks

Each October for the past six years, traditional Korean dancers from throughout the country have gathered along the banks of Nakdong River in the small town of Andong in the province of Kyongsangbuk-do for what is now one of the most popular mask dance festivals in Korea. In the open-air amphitheater and courtyard, along the lazy riverbanks and nearby in the traditional village of Hahoe, the haunting notes of the bamboo piri, the syncopated underbeat of the changgo and puk drums and the jangling of kkwaenggari gongs accompany the reenactment and retelling of familiar, funny and poignant dance-dramas.

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