Music, the only pleasure allowed by the state, meets the world’s first North-South crew.
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May music be a medicine for your heart
Music is a medicine for a broken heart.
Music is a medicine for a wounded heart.
– Alfred William Hunt
Alfred William Hunt, one of the famous painters in England, expressed music as a medicine for a wounded heart. Music has a great power regardless of the east and west. There are anecdotes that stopped the war with one song on the battlefield, and there are people who heal wounded hearts with music around us. Music has the power to change many things.
There are people and projects that have such power for peace and unification. It is the ‘storytelling fashion concert of the world’s first South-North art crew ‘Hulk'[Hip: Han]’. This performance created a unique and radical stage by incorporating not only music but also hanbok and dance. Now, let’s start the story with the words of the representative who planned the performance.
Music and dance are universal, and hanbok is a heritage that the Korean people share together.
I wanted to capture everything that the South and the North, we can do together.
△ “Girl and Grandmother”, a self-composed song by Representative Lee Ga-young, made in memory of her late grandmother, who was from Sinuiju, North Korea (ⓒ El Kingdom Entertainment)
Storytelling Fashion Concert of the World’s First South-North Art Crew [Hulk]
Storytelling Fashion Concert of the World’s First South-North Art Crew [Hulk]
When I first came across this performance, I was unfamiliar. I was curious about many things, but the most curious thing was what the ‘fashion concert’ was. I had heard of fashion shows, but I had never heard of fashion concerts. However, such questions were completely resolved after seeing the performance. It was a concert where music, dance, and fashion (hanbok) were combined.
El Kingdom Entertainment, which planned this performance (hereinafter referred to as ‘El Kingdom Enter’), started as a South and North youth art club on August 14, 2008, proclaiming a culture planning company that embraces the Korean Peninsula and rebuilds ‘one person, society, world’ through vibrant art. Since then, the club has grown into the current El Kingdom Enter through constant changes and efforts, and planned this fashion concert. El Kingdom Enter is an entertainment company that is widely active in various cultural and art fields from local festivals, youth education, concerts, parties, and video content, and has considerable skills. The representative of El Kingdom Enter, in particular, had a lot of interest in peace and unification and planned this performance.
△ South and North artist crew [Hulk] who participated in this [Hip: Han] performance (ⓒ El Kingdom Entertainment)
Planner, composer, fashion designer, dancer, band, talking about peace and unification
If I were to describe the performance in one word, it would be ‘the result of the efforts of artists who major in and work in the field of art’. The performance is composed of four parts, starting with winter and then fall, summer, and spring, i.e., the four seasons. Each season contains keywords that penetrate the South and North, and fashion, music, and dance were added to match them.
The fashion designer sublimated the history of the South and North into fashion using hanbok as a material, the composer expressed the sorrow (哀歡) that the Korean people had to feel according to the changes of the times through music, and the dancer expressed us, from when South and North Korea were one to now and the future unified Korea, through dance. Since I can’t contain the grand story in words, I will now lead you to the scene of that performance.
Winter, we ‘Korean people’ who were originally one before the division
The theme of winter is before the division. We set the time when South and North Korea lived together and shared thoughts before the division as the theme of winter. The harmony of the hanbok, which was reorganized in black and white based on the old hanbok, was outstanding. The old hanbok is one of the noblest clothes among hanboks. I think the old hanbok was the most effective in expressing the most noble and precious time before the division of South and North Korea. In line with this, music and dance were also composed in a lively and cheerful atmosphere.
△ ‘Winter’ stage expressing the Korean Peninsula before the division (ⓒ El Kingdom Entertainment)
