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2025. 8. 13. Wed - 2025. 8. 17. Sun
40 Minute
Free
All Ages Admitted
Farmers’ Songs from the Field – A Valuable Sound that Reflects Human-ness
Nongyo (farmers’ songs) sung in the fields of Daejang Village, Geumgwa-myeon, Sunchang-gun of the Jeonbuk Province, were passed down through generations as children listened and learned while helping with farming labor during pumasi (communal farming activities). In response to the mechanization of rural areas in modern times, these songs were revived as a form of “deulsori,” which is a restoration of farming process. The “Sunchangnongyo Geumgwa Deulsori” won the Grand Prize at the 43rd Korean Folk Arts Festival in 2002, representing Jeonbuk Province, and after then, it became designated as an Intangible Cultural Heritage of the Jeonbuk State in 2005. At this festival stage, songs of carrying water, planting and transplanting rice, and weeding will be performed, bringing the precious sounds of our ancestors' sweat and vitality onto the stage. These sounds will bridge generations, connecting elderly people who experienced farming labor in Korea's rapidly changing society with teenagers, and thereby foster the mutual understanding between them.