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The National Museum of Korea's "costume play" event, where participants dress up as museum artifacts and enjoy themselves, has been a major topic of discussion since the preliminary rounds. Today, the final round took place.
Reporter Park Ha-jeong went to cover the event.
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Meticulously painting their faces with colors matching the artifacts,
[Jeon Eun-seul: It is a hue similar to a cute character. I focused on making something that I could easily create.]
They practice the poses they will strike on stage in advance.
[Jung Saet-byul, Kim Seung-joo: We are natives of Gwangyang. We also want to let people know that there are such wonderful artifacts in our region.]
The National Museum of Korea's "costume play" is a participatory event where participants dress up with motifs from artifacts in museums across the country and add their own interpretations. This year, it expanded nationwide for the first time, with a total of 275 teams and 643 people participating. After regional preliminaries lasting about a month, 25 teams advanced to the finals today.
[Does the state seal have legs!]
Teams armed with imaginative ideas stepped onto the runway to express our cultural heritage with their entire bodies, including Jegojibo (a state seal portraying its journey from being used during the Korean Empire to being looted by Japan and later repatriated), a Pensive Bodhisattva who also performed a rap expressing personal contemplation, a Celadon Incense Burner with Inlaid Peony and Chrysanthemum Design (the pinnacle of Goryeo celadon) complete with burning incense, and the Twin Lion Stone Lantern of Junghungsanseong Fortress expressing the structure of a stone lantern through the poses of two people.
[Kim So-hyun: It used to be just something I saw once while passing by, but I think it became an opportunity to learn more about cultural heritage.]
After fierce competition, the Grand Prize was won by Jeon Eun-seul, who portrayed a white porcelain water dropper in the shape of a carp.
[Yoo Hong-jun, Director of the National Museum of Korea: The high creative desire and imagination with which young people have expressed themselves were clearly shown through this costume play, so I think it will likely become a representative festival for young people.]
Building on this interest, the National Museum of Korea plans to continue the costume play event next year.
(Photo courtesy of National Museum of Korea)
Reported by Park Ha-jeong | Video by Lim Woo-sik | Video Editing by Lee Seung-yeol | Graphics by Seo Seung-hyun
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