South Korean K-Pop Stars will perform in pyongyang for the first time!
After North
Korea sent a musical delegation to the Winter Olympics, Seoul will respond in
kind with a show of its own. Around 160 musicians, including several high-profile K-pop stars, will
visit Pyongyang on March 31 — the first South Korean performers to head north
on the peninsula since 2005, Reuters reports.
The upcoming,
four-day lineup will feature K-pop sensation Red Velvet, a five-member all-girl
group, and singers Baek Ji Young and Lee Sun Hee. Pop singer Cho Yong Pil will
also perform. He was the last South Korean singer to grace Pyongyang’s stage in
2005, according to Reuters.
“Our first
task will be to instill the same awe in North Korean audiences as we do our
South Korean ones, and make sure nothing is awkward,” Yoon Sang, a singer and
record producer who will direct the upcoming concerts, told Reuters.
The South
Korean ensemble will put on two shows, one in the East Pyongyang Grand Theater,
and one in the Ryukyung Chung Ju-yung Gymnasium, a facility built by both North
and South Korea and named after Hyundai founder Chung Ju-yung.
The South’s
musical envoy comes amid an attempt to thaw relations in part by renewing cultural
exchanges in the wake of talks along the Koreas’ shared border in January. The
upcoming concerts will reciprocate the 140-member orchestra troupe the North
sent to Seoul and Gangneung at the start of the Winter Olympics. That posse was
led by Hyon Song Wol, a singer in North Korea’s
all-female Moranbong Band, and a rising political star in
Kim Jong Un’s regime.
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