They spun and tossed their bayoneted weapons around. If you've ever seen a drill team before then you've seen this. Pretty standard show. There were a couple of differences I did notice. First was instead of one person calling commands the whole time there were different people calling them out at different times. Second was when you watch a US drill team, they are eyes front, stone faced, dead silent. The ROK team was talking to each other and looking around. I always like watching drill teams though.
There were several displays of traditional Korean music and dancing.
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| samoul nori - traditional percussion music |
Traditional folk song. After the first song they started 'breaking it down' and were lightly twirling around and circling. It almost sounded like she was rapping at one point! Unfortunately they only had two handheld microphones for these group performances. I think it detracted from the whole effect because you could only hear one or two people and not the group. The group pictured below all sang but only the women had the mics, so you couldn't hear the men or the large wooden flute. At the beginning they held it up to the flute while he soloed, and it sounded beautiful, but then they took it away to sing and the flute was lost in the soprano voices.
Traditional poetic song. They explained before the start what it was about but I couldn't understand what they were saying.
Hwagwanmoo - traditional dance. This was my favorite performance. There is a whole row of ladies behind her.
There were several helicopters and motorized vehicles displayed that they let people get in. Matt enjoyed this as much as the girls! Toward the end of the event the ROK army had to fly their helis off and we were there to watch, which was fascinating for the girls (and Matt!) also.
The event closed with a concert by Fred Shaffer, which was pretty good. Matt took the baby home and Carrie and I stayed to watch a bit of it. She was fascinated at first, then she said it was too loud.
Bye bye!
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