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Thames Festival 2008

Korea at the Thames Festival 1 – Jump! and Last For One

by Saharial on 16 September, 2008

in Chuseok 2008, Event reports and reviews, Thames Festival 2008

By Saharial
Looking out at the rather dull day I am having today, it would be hard for me to believe that the weekend was full of summer sunshine if I hadn’t got a little toasted at the Thames Festival on Saturday. After a long walk from St Pancras to Waterloo and then a nice short [...]

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Korea at the Thames Festival 2 – Stick Throwing and Kimchi Pancakes

16 September 2008 Chuseok 2008
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By Matthew Jackson
The Korean section of the Thames Festival 2008 was bigger, more spectacular and altogether more chaotic than the ‘Sarangbang’ of last year. When I showed up on the Saturday afternoon, I was introduced to a traditional Korean game which involved throwing sticks at a target, as one of the sticks narrowly avoided my [...]

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Korea at the Thames Festival

10 September 2008 Chuseok 2008
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Those who experienced Korea’s input into the Thames Festival last year won’t want to miss out this year.

As last year, the festival coincides with one of the most important holidays in the Korean calendar, Chuseok. This year we have performances from Last For One (above), probably Korea’s best-known b-boy crew and victors in the 2005 [...]

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