Osan City Holds 6th Comprehensive Arts Festival

Osan City held the opening ceremony and celebratory performances of the 6th Comprehensive Arts Festival on the afternoon of the 8th at the Grand Performance Hall of Osan Cultural Arts Center.

The celebratory performances, organized by the Osan Branch of the Korean National Association of Arts (Branch Director Kang Han-seok), featured diverse genres including saxophone performances, local singer performances, comedy plays (Namseong Nam, etc.), invited singer performances (Choi Young-chul, Jeon Jin-ah), Hyangbal dance, fusion traditional music performances, group drumming performances, and Gangryeong mask dance, receiving enthusiastic responses from approximately 500 citizens in attendance.

On the first day of the event, the 7th, an art exhibition by the Art Association and a calligraphy exhibition of poems by the Literary Association were held on the first floor of City Hall lobby. In the afternoon at 4 p.m., a commemorative ceremony marking the 20th anniversary of the Osan Literary Association's founding was held at the Cultural Arts Center with approximately 300 citizens invited.

An official from the Osan Branch of the Korean National Association of Arts, which organized the event, stated, "With the Traditional Music Association, Literary Association, Art Association, Entertainment Association, Music Association, and Theater Association as the backbone, we will make our best efforts to develop programs that can meet the diverse cultural needs of Osan citizens going forward."