Guro-gu G Festival Held as an Online Healing Festival

No Offline Events Like Existing Necktie Marathon and Health Noikjang... Various Non-Face-to-Face Programs Prepared Due to COVID-19, Operated Throughout September, Broadcast on YouTube Channel... 'Natuber' Contest, Online Singing Contest, Home Delivery Concert, Lee Yeon-bok's Delicious Asia, and More

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[Asia Economy Reporter Park Jong-il] Guro-gu (Mayor Lee Sung) will hold the ‘Guro G Festival 2020’ as an online healing festival.

Guro-gu announced on the 1st, “This year’s G Festival will be conducted with various online healing programs to comfort residents exhausted by COVID-19.”

The ‘Guro G Festival’ is Guro-gu’s representative festival created by merging the autumn festival ‘Jump Guro’ and the ‘Asia Culture Festival’ held in 2015. The necktie marathon and the health longevity event were held annually but were canceled this year due to COVID-19.

Instead, this year, various programs will be created with the message “Though the distance grows, hearts stay close,” and will be held online and non-face-to-face throughout September.

To this end, Guro-gu has launched an official YouTube channel (‘GuroGFestival2020’) and prepared various online channels such as Facebook and Instagram.

First, the ‘I am also a YouTuber (Natyube)’ contest will be held from the first day of the festival, the 1st, to the 26th. Participants can submit videos on themes such as daily life and overcoming COVID-19 by the 18th. Prizes worth about 5 million won are also prepared.

Every Tuesday until the 22nd, ‘Lee Yeon-bok’s Delicious Asia’ will be broadcast on YouTube. Famous chef Lee Yeon-bok and Indian-born broadcaster Lucky will cook recipes selected from a cooking contest for residents and talk about Asian culture.

On the 15th at 4 p.m., the online singing contest ‘Youth Studio’ will be broadcast live through local cable TV. Residents wishing to participate in the preliminaries can download the karaoke app ‘Something’ by the 8th, record a singing video, and upload it tagged with ‘#YouthStudio#Seoul#Guro-gu’.

On the 16th at 7 p.m., the ‘Faraway Neighbors’ program will offer AR experience videos from seven Asian countries.

From 11 a.m. on the 17th, the ‘Concert Delivered Home’ will be live-streamed. Performers include Dongchun Circus, Jeongdan, Mureu, Lee Bong-geun, Crying Nut, Nerd Connection, and D-Coig.

From the 21st to the 25th, neighborhood resident autonomy program presentations will be broadcast. The videos have already been produced, and experts will conduct online judging and award ceremonies.

On the 26th at 3 p.m., author Heo Jin-mo of ‘War History, Civilization History, World History’ will give a lecture titled ‘Meeting China through the Romance of the Three Kingdoms.’

An online exhibition event is also prepared. On the 10th and 11th at 7 p.m., works exhibited under the theme ‘Museum Coming Outside’ at Sindorim D-Cube Plaza and Oryu Station Cultural Park can be viewed online.

The closing ceremony will be held on the 27th at 3 p.m. The ceremony will feature the resident autonomy program presentation awards, the Natyube contest awards, and congratulatory performances by Shin Yoo and Mai Jin.

Detailed programs may change depending on the COVID-19 situation.

For more information, visit the official G Festival website.

A Guro-gu official said, “We will do our best to carry out the programs so that exhausted residents can gain strength,” adding, “It will be an opportunity to create a new festival paradigm in the post-COVID-19 era.”

This content was produced with the assistance of AI translation services.