Many festivals are going on in Seoul. Let's take focus on some festivals in Seoul..................Ed.

 

  DJs don’t give you oily words and turn on songs you’d like to listen to in Sindang-dong Ddeokbokki restaurants anymore. Now, they are recognized as an artistic job which has a great deal of influence on modern culture. Actually, research shows one third of juveniles want to be a DJ in England. They can attain international fame and interchange in diverse cultures through ‘music’,and also extend their influential realm. They can create instant rhythmic mixing on the spot through direct communication with the public listening to their music. This makes people feel touched further.

The Seoul World DJ Festival (SWDF) is held annually  t the Nanji campground(Seoul), the Han River Park,South Korea by SangSang  factory. The 1st Seoul World DJ Festival was held in 2007 as a main program of  the ‘Hi Seoul Festival’, which was the first and largest outdoor dance music festival  n South Korea. More than 90,000 people gathered and the event encouraged people  o dance, making the audience be participants according to the motto ‘Audience 0%, Participants 100%’ during this three-day-all night festival. The media gave it a nickname, ‘Korean Woodstock’. At first, they were scheduled to finish performances  by 5 am, but because of the great response from the audience the host prolonged  it until 7 am Thanks to last year’s success SWDF was held independently from March 3rd to 5th, 2008. The festival committee, 21c RPM, prepared the big event  which  consisted of around 250 people including culture and music professionals  and students in about 60 universities etc.

Seoul World DJ Festival has began to be considered the best Korean and international festival, a milestone for all culture in  Korea.

The 2nd Seoul World DJ Festival published a slogan, ‘Dugeundugeun’. This means ‘pit-a-pat’, the vibration of the earth and Seoul. The concept of this slogan  is that electronic music is based on beats which is similar to beating of the heart  of humans’ first heard sound. In addition, the main concept of this festival was  ‘tradition’, so the staff and performers wore the Korean traditional clothes, ‘Hanbok’  and the stage was decorated with a Korean traditional tiled roof(Giwa), windows  and doors(Changho). Fantastic Djing started at 2 pm and the festival continued until  6 am next morning, with splendid a Image Show of VJs.

DJ Dan, who ranked fifth  in DJ world ranking in 2006, appeared with his partner, Donald Glaude, as a main  artist with national popular DJs such as BEEJAY, Hi-Fi etc. The Cornelius Group   who marked an epoch in Japanese electronic  music  also visited Korea for the first time. VJ  Image Show which was also held last year, rock bands’ performances, and communities’ Experience programs widened their scale. Lee Sang-eun (Lee- Tzsche), Wiretap In My Ear, Vodka Rain, and Nine etc. showed long-time live great performances which were on the same level as an independent concert. Participants  ould also enjoy ‘Festival Village’ constructed by the onlne & offline associations,  here they can make their own souvenirs, cosplay or take pictures incostume.

‘Nanji  rtist’, a new program this year,  was the Change program with a moto, ‘Whoever  an be an artist’, in which participants could change themselves, wearing various colors of dresses that they can’t wear in ordinary times, and enjoy playing instruments, dancing and pantomiming freely anywhere.