Andong Festival

This weekend myself and 5 other native English teachers met and went to Andong for a mask festival. It was interesting. I have some fun video from this festival as well! The mask festival has been going on for only about 10 years but it is very interesting and lots of people were there. It included several sites including the oldest traditional Korean village called Hahoe village. Here is a link to the village information:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hahoe_Folk_Village_in_Andong

They performed a bunch of traditional dances and songs, including instruments and a kind of fighting dance. It was all very interesting. Here are s couple of pictures I took. I will post a couple of videos later when I am at my apartment since I can not view them on this computer I am currently using. The videos include one of a cool light up bed in the hotel room i shared with another girl.

Enjoy!






This picture is of a traditional dance type thing they did where they are fighting, they push with their elbows only and try to get to the other teams platform. The team who's platform touches the ground first wins. I was part of the west team (blue). We lost unfortunately, it was very cool. I have some neat video of this.


These were pictures taken at the traditional village including a pretty famous dish for the area, Andong chicken, It was yummy! Also if you look closely the person who made all of these totem pole type things had a thing for male phallic symbols. We saw them everywhere, including a water fountain... It was interesting.