The cultural interchange is expected to consist of 03 parts, including photos and paintings exhibition, literature activities (reciting poems), and artistic performance, with co-participation of photographers and artists, writers and poets, and singers and performers from either localities of Jeju-do and Quang Ngai.

Poet Thanh Thao, President of Quang Ngai Provincial Literature and Arts Association - the co-organizer of the interchange, reveals Jeju-do artists shall bring to Quang Ngai people the most interesting, unique cultural identities of the island through a wide range of cultural activities.

As regards the exhibition, Quang Ngai people shall have a chance to be exposed to some 30 artistic photos about the wonder of Jeju-do island, a world natural heritage by UNESCO, meanwhile some 15 paintings by Jeju artists are to bring viewers back into history of this fabulous island.

Two Jeju poets, Kim Soo Yeul and Lee Yong Hyung, shall also come up with their poems recited of the land and the people of Jeju-do.

Particularly, Thanh Thao keeps people informed that the artistic performance by Jeju artists shall be amasingly unique with Gut Dance, Sand Animation, and Jeju folklore songs which shall undenially make a clear picture in the viewers’ mind about a distinct culture.

A counterpart program has now been under preparartion by Quang Ngai artists to correspondingly contribute to that of Jeju to make a successful interchange.

In addition to the exhibition of photos and paitings, Quang Ngai singers and performers, especially some artisans, shall also show their Korean friends the beauty of Quang Ngai culture characterised by the folklore songs and musical instruments such as Sac Bua singing, Ba Trao singing, Kor’s Gong playing.

                                               dol hareubang ("stone grandfather")  

Jeju-do is a special self-governing province of South Korea, situated on and coterminous with the country's largest island in the Korea Strait, southwest of Jeollanam-do Province, about 1 hour flight from Seoul.

Due to the relative isolation of the island, the people of Jeju have developed a culture and language that are distinct from those of mainland Korea, with thousands of local legends, and perhaps the most distinct cultural artifact of ubiquitous carved from a block of lava.

Another distinct aspect of Jeju is the matriarchal family structure, found especially in Udo and Mara, but also present in the rest of the province.

The island now contains the Natural World Heritage Site entitled Jeju Volcanic Island and Lava Tubes.

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