‘Hanseong Baekje Online Parade’ Held

New Concept Parade Until September 27... Psychological Tests, Create Characters, and Even Donate!

[Asia Economy Reporter Jongil Park] Songpa-gu (Mayor Park Seong-su) will hold the ‘Hanseong Baekje Online Parade’ until September 27 as part of the ‘2020 Ontact Hanseong Baekje Cultural Festival.’

The ‘Hanseong Baekje Online Parade’ is the main program of the Hanseong Baekje Cultural Festival. It is an online program that recreates the historical and cultural street procession, which used to take place on Olympic-ro with performers and about 1,000 residents, in a contactless format.

Anyone who wishes to participate in the online parade can easily join by accessing the Hanseong Baekje webpage. Participants share the Hanseong Baekje character assigned to them through a psychological test on SNS, and when these posts accumulate, a single parade is completed.

To participate, first take the online personality test, and based on the results, you will be assigned your own Hanseong Baekje character resembling yourself. After saving the character image, share it on Instagram with the hashtags (#Ontact Hanseong Baekje Cultural Festival #Hanseong Baekje Online Parade) to complete your participation.

This online parade offers an opportunity not only to learn about our history and culture easily and enjoyably but also to help neighbors in need.

For each parade participant, 100 won will be accumulated and donated to the ‘Warm Winter Campaign with the Community Chest of Korea’ as part of the donation campaign.

Additionally, if participants keep their posts until September 28 and follow the Instagram account (@hanseong_parade), they will be entered into a draw to win prizes including ▲iPad Air (1 person) ▲AirPods 3rd generation (2 people) ▲Starbucks latte coupons (20 people).

Meanwhile, the ‘2020 Ontact Hanseong Baekje Cultural Festival’ is an Ontact festival that conveys messages of comfort and healing to residents weary from COVID-19. Although contactless (Untact), it carries the meaning of being connected (On) and offers various programs such as ▲Children’s Hanseong Baekje experiential play ▲Singing contest ▲Photo contest through SNS and YouTube channels.

Park Seong-su, Mayor of Songpa-gu, said, “The Hanseong Baekje Online Parade is a new form of festival culture found as a way to come together during these times when it is difficult to gather on-site due to social distancing. We have planned it so that many people can easily and enjoyably experience the history and culture of Hanseong Baekje, so we ask for your great interest and participation.”

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