Emotional Joint Performance 'Haenyeo's Sea' Harmony Successfully Opens in Pohang

United Pohang, Ulsan, and Gyeongju

Singing of Coexistence and Hope

Pohang City opened the Haeoreum Alliance joint performance featuring the municipal art troupes of Pohang, Ulsan, and Gyeongju at the Pohang Culture and Arts Center on the 10th.

On the 10th, the municipal art troupes of Pohang, Ulsan, and Gyeongju opened the Haeorum Alliance joint performance at the Pohang Culture and Arts Center.

This performance was a documentary creative musical titled "Haenyeo's Sea," which presented interviews with the haenyeo of the Guryongpo fishing village, their lives, and their sea, all brought to the stage through music.

The first part of the performance featured the opera pieces "Nabucco Overture," "Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves," "Wedding Chorus," and "Triumphal March," expressing the unity and development of the Haeoreum Alliance cities. The Pohang City Symphony Orchestra was joined by over 150 members from the Pohang, Ulsan, and Gyeongju City Choirs, filling the venue with a grand and delicate chorus.

The second part showcased the documentary creative musical "Haenyeo's Sea." Starting with the "Overture," which depicted the ever-changing sea, the performance continued with "To the Sea Fields," illustrating haenyeo heading out to the ocean, and "Sumbisori," portraying the haenyeo holding their breath for their diving work, among a total of six pieces.

This "Haenyeo's Sea" was a beautiful stage that delivered a profound impression, telling the lives of haenyeo chosen by and choosing the sea. The visual elements such as media art and underwater/special filming, combined with the orchestra's performance, the powerful chorus, and the live interviews with the haenyeo, created a deeply moving experience.

In particular, the performance confirmed that "haenyeo" are an inseparable and precious heritage, as well as a shared value, for the three cities of Pohang, Ulsan, and Gyeongju, which have all developed alongside the sea.

The Haeoreum Alliance municipal art troupe joint performance, which opened successfully in Pohang on the 10th, will continue at the Ulsan Culture and Arts Center on the 17th and at the Gyeongju Arts Center on the 31st.

A city official stated, "We believe this performance served as an opportunity to further enhance Pohang's image as a cultural city," and added, "We hope that cultural and artistic exchanges among the three cities of Pohang, Ulsan, and Gyeongju, which share the common values of the Haeoreum Alliance and live together, will continue to develop based on this performance."

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