Ever on the lookout for something new to do, I found an advertisement in the local English magazine for the 9th Lifelong Learning Festival in Daegu. Of course I immediately started making plans to go. We were able to plot a rough location on our Daegu city map, but we had to trust the rest to luck. Fortunately, we saw the balloons they use at all these gatherings in Korea and some people standing to directing traffic to the parking.
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| the Suseong Lake area of Daegu |
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| the fan dance |
It was a large festival for the area, with booths set up displaying local artisans and some local businesses. The first thing we saw upon entering the gate was a group dancing and drumming. I don't know what it's called. It's pretty standard at every event we've been to in Korea, but still entertaining.
It was hard to take any pictures of the booths because it was so crowded. Here is one, but I have no idea what was really going on. There were no English translations to help me out this time!
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| some sort of basket making |
There was a large tent set up as the food court, mostly Korean food of course, but a few international cuisines were there as well. I ate from the Bangladesh booth and it was great!
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| Turkish ice cream stand; always up for a joke! |
There's not much to say about it really, though we did have a good time. We watched several dancing and music performances on the main stage, and walked through the international tent which had booths representing various countries. Once again, everything was in Korean with very little to no English signage. We passed by the American booth which had a guy (I assume an American) dressed up like a cowboy; long live the wild west! Hilarious! There were many craft booths with lovely items, but not for sale - disappointing!
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| playing the hayaguem |
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| touring Italy |
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| firewoman! |
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