[Korea Performance] World Beat Vinari: Worth Watching?

Before you are judging me, I would like to say that this is only from the perspective of me as an audience. As everyone knows that everyone has their own thought about this performance. 

From what I saw Vinari is a performance that emphasizes in traditional music instrument and singing. The songs are actually telling about some different stories. The performance itself does not really have story. To be short, the performance is just a collection of traditional music instrument and - you can say - concert. 

The one that I quite like is actually the concert part, where one of the girls sang with a really powerful voice. I think that's only it. The instrument play was also good, but nothing really special. You can really see it at some places in Korea. I have seen it in Namsan Tower. They played right in front of Namsan Tower. Also you might see it on festivals in Korea. They played traditional music instrument while doing some acrobat action.

It is true that they try to be interactive with the audience by asking us to yell or clap our hand. Nothing really special about it. No cool acrobat actions, no funny moments, it was very dull and really standard.

The theater is pretty cold (it was winter) and I had to keep wearing my jacket. The screens that explain about the story of the songs are placed at the side of the stage, it was pretty uncomfortable to see it, some people might not notice it. 

I would not recommend this one, but if you want to see it, the theater is located at Cine Core 4th Floor. Take line number 1 and stop at Jonggak Station and take exit 12, walk until you find intersection, cross the road and turn right. You should see the poster.

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Jump in Korea

Several days ago, I went to Seoul to watch a very famous comic martial arts performance called Jump!. I went with a Mongolian friend and we were really expecting a good show from this performance since we heard a lot about this. As the genre says that this is about martial arts, therefore they were showing some fighting scenes and martial arts demonstrations. They are focusing on Taekwondo and Taekkyon.
There is one big family consisted of a grandfather, father, mother, uncle, and a daughter. Grandfather is the most powerful in the family, mother can do Taekwondo, the daughter is pretty, and uncle is a drunken master. Also, there is one guy character who wears a pair of glasses in which if the glasses is taken off from him, he became a really strong person. There are also two robber that come to the house and this is where they fight.
There is this one unrelated character which is a really old man that even barely walk. If you have ever seen the movie Ice Age, there is this one cute character that always chases apricot, I think this old guy character is kind of copying the Ice Age character. The show lasts about 1 hour 20 minutes and I think the most interesting scene is when they have to fight in the dark.
The place is big and it has a lot of chairs. It is located near Jongno 3 Ga Station. I really recommend this performance, especially for girls who want to see some muscles ^^.

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