Events

Program of Events

Event Program (PDF File)

This is a tentative list. Events and times are subject to change without notice.
10:00am

Traditional Farmer's Harvest Music
Nongak Marching Group

10:15am

Fan Dance
by Aju P'ongsang Suwon Institute

10:21am

Uttari Nongak
Pochun Manwol Samulnori

10:31am

Folk Song
by Aju P'ongsang Suwon Institute

10:37am

Student Scholarship Awards Presentation
Hawaii Korean Chamber of Commerce

10:42am

The Scholar Dance
by Aju P'ongsang Suwon Institute

10:47am

Taekwondo (Korean Martial Arts) Presentation
US Taekwondo Team

11:17am

The Hand Drum Dance
by Aju P'ongsang Suwon Institute

11:22am

Hula
by Halau Hula O'Hoakalei

11:50am

Royal Hawaiian Band

12:20pm

Opening Ceremonies & Entrepeneur of the Year Presentation
Hawaii Korean Chamber of Commerce

12:45pm

Court Dances
by The Society for Research for Jeongjae Group

1:00pm

Latin Dances
by Korean Life Culture Association

1:15pm

Korean Dances
by The Society for Research for Jeongjae Group

1:31pm

Jazz & Hip Hop
by Korean Life Culture Association

1:45pm

Kim Chi Eating Contest

2:11pm

Welcome Remarks

2:16pm

BYU Korean Music
BYU Korean Club

2:26pm

Martial Arts Presentation
Pacific Martial Arts

2:56pm

Local Korean Dance Groups
Halla Huhm Studio
Hwa Sook Chang Dance Team
Myung-Woo Dahn
Jung Eun Sun Studio
Cham-Sa Rang
Rainbow Music Band

4:10pm

Chung Hwa Ja Kayagum Institute

4:40pm

Samul Gwang Dae Group

5:30pm

Korean Song Contest

7:00pm

Award-Winning Korean Pop Star
Kim Se Hwan

Featured Performers

Kim Se Hwan Kim Se Hwan

Korean Life Culture Association The Korean Life Culture Association performs a number of different dances including the Cha-Cha, Rumba, Samba, Pasadoble, Jive, Jazz and Hip-Hop to share contemporary dance and good will with their audiences throughout Korea and around the world.

Samul Gwang Dae Group The members of Samul Gwang Dae Group have known each other from childhood and began playing together from an early age. In 1988 they joined Kim Duk-su's Samulnori Hanullim while in high school and from then on became known as the Samul Gwang Dae. Global performers, they are making their Hawaii debut at the Festival.

Aju Pongsang Aju P'ongsang Suwon Institute won the first place award for traditional dance at the Kangnam Cultural Center in Seoul last year. These Korean housewives perpetuate traditional Korean culture in Suwon, and derive much personal enjoyment as well. They perform the following dances: Puchae Chum (fan dance), Minyo Chum (folk song dance), Heung Chum (small hand drum dance) and Hairyang-mu (scholar's dance).

Chung Hwa Ja Kayagum Institute Chung Hwa of Chung Hwa Ja Kayagum Institute is an award-winning performer who also teaches at Namwon Traditional Art High School. Her performance of the Suk Dae Mori tells a famous Korean love story. In Honam-ga, she brings alive a poem of the Yi dynasty describing the Honam scenery. Chindo Arirang takes the audience to the Chindo province, and Sae Taryong describes the singing of many different birds.

Society for Research of Jeongjae The Society for Research of Jeongjae strives to perpetuate the interest in Jeongjae, a beloved Korean court dance. The Korean National Folk Museum has invited the group to perform at its events, and they have performed at historic Korean palaces, at the concert celebration for the Korean empress Hyegyeong's sixtieth birthday and at a celebration for cultural icon, Kim Chang-Ha, a court dance master in the late Joseon Dynasty.

Pochun Manwol Samulnori Pochun Manwol Samulnori is the enthusiastic amateur performing troupe that studies with Kim Han Bok of the Samul Gwang Dae Group. Their talent and love for performing has taken them from stages in their hometown of Pochun to Hawaii and beyond.

Korean Fan Dance
Photo courtesy of Willard Poindexter
Korean Drum Dance