On the afternoon of the 5th, Miryang City and Pusan National University (Dean Jang Seong-ho of the College of Life and Resource Sciences) held the 2022 Miryang City-Pusan University Ojakgyo Concert in an outdoor performance hall near the Miryang River in which citizens and students communicate and harmonize together.
Ojakgyo Concert, which celebrated its 10th anniversary this year, is an Oullim concert that provides a wide range of cultural opportunities for Pusan National University students and the citizens of Miryang participate together. After three years, it was held outdoors on an autumn night.
This event started with a pre-ceremonial street magic performance, followed by an opening mid-singer by Pusan National University music students, an exciting rock band from the student club ‘Sori Love’, a lively dance from ‘Volume Up’, and a congratulatory performance by singers. .
In particular, the Ojakgyo Individual Skill Contest, held as an ancillary event, was attended by 40 citizens from 9 teams including the Miryang Women’s Center Club, providing fun sights and laughter to the audience with amazing individual performances such as playing musical instruments and singing.
Mayor Park Il-ho of Miryang said, “The scale of the event was reduced in the aftermath of Corona, but I am very happy to be back with students and citizens on a grand outdoor stage in three years.” We expect it to be an emotional bridge to create synergies for win-win development and to go one step further.”
Miryang City Hall badminton team wins the men’s general team event at the 103rd National Sports Festival
The Miryang City Hall badminton team won the second consecutive national championship.
The Miryang City Hall badminton team (director Seung-mo Son), who represented Gyeongnam at the 103rd National Sports Festival held in Ulsan Metropolitan City, starting with a pre-match from the 30th of last month, won the men’s general team event and mixed doubles following last year’s national championship. Got 3rd place.
The Miryang City Hall badminton team won 4 team awards in 2021 (3 wins, 1 3rd place), 6 wins in 2022 (4 wins, 2 runners-up), best coach (Eui-Seok Jeong), and best player (Wan-Ho Son). The team has maintained its reputation as the best team in name and reality by consistently showing off its top-class skills.
A Miryang city official said, “I applaud the players of the badminton team at Miryang City Hall who are consistently demonstrating their best capabilities.” “The 103rd National Sports Festival is off to a good start. Won the badminton event (winner in the team event, 3rd place in mixed doubles), representing Gyeongsangnam-do. I hope it will be a strength to the athletes from other sports.”
Meanwhile, the 2022 Korea Elementary Badminton Federation President’s National Student Championship is being held at the Miryang Badminton Stadium from the 1st to the 10th.
◆2022 Korea Culture Month event held… Miryang’s autumn is colored with ‘Arirang’
From the 14th to the 16th, the city of Miryang will hold the 2022 Korean Culture Month event on the banks of the Miryang River.
In Korea Culture Month, the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism selects a venue in the form of a public contest with local governments every year to secure the vitality of local culture and revitalize culture and arts.
Last year, the city planned the year 2022 to commemorate the 10th anniversary of Arirang’s inclusion in UNESCO’s Intangible Cultural Heritage, and applied Arirang as the theme and was selected as the host of the ‘2022 Korean Cultural Month Event’.
Under the slogan of ‘Arirang, the sound of a millennium, flows into culture’, various programs such as the Cultural Month commemoration ceremony, theme performances, Arirang performances, puppet theater art playground, exhibitions, and experiences will be held.
The ‘Culture Month Commemoration Ceremony’, which will be held from 7 pm on the 15th, will feature two thematic performances. In the first theme performance, ‘Float the boat, Arirang’, the Miryang ferry, the Jeongseon Auraji raft, and the Jindo Jodo anchor boat arrive at the Miryang River and perform local folk songs to deliver the message of national unity.
Media art is added to this to create a fantastic atmosphere through each local ship floating on the Miryang River, providing new attractions.
The second theme performance, ‘The Korea We Want’, is a song based on the lyrics of a poem by Baek Beom Kim, by pianist Dong-chang Lim, Sang-Gang Lee (owner of Daegeum Sanjo), Kyung-wha Ryu (Professor at Korea National University of Arts), and Young-Gil Kim (Music Orchestra of National Gugak Center). They perform with the best Korean traditional musicians.
In addition, ‘Korean Peninsula Arirang’, in which 16 Arirang conservation groups across the country participate, ‘Arirang Yeonhui Nanjang’, where you can enjoy the local performances of Miryang, Jeongseon, and Jindo, Miryang River Real Scene Musical (Love Dream), Arirang’s creative performance ‘Ribbon Miryang Arirang’ Various performances such as
Lastly, as for the exhibition and experience, the cultural month exhibition project ‘Round and Round Arirang’ and ‘Sorirang Arirang’ stand out. Through this exhibition, we offer a meditative experience of laying down our daily burdens while looking at Yeongnamru and the night sky reflected in the Miryang River.
Mayor of Miryang Park Il-ho said, “Korea’s representative cultural brand is Arirang. Please visit Miryang, the cultural month event, and enjoy the beauty and excitement of Arirang nationwide.”
Meanwhile, detailed information about the 2022 Korean Culture Month can be found on the Culture Month website.
Miryang Hyanggyo, held a ceremony for the succession of the ideology of senior citizens and filial piety
On the 6th, the city of Miryang held a giraffe banquet event at Miryanghyanggyo, Gyo-dong, inviting 150 senior citizens aged 75 and over.
The event was hosted by Miryang Hyanggyo (myung-hwan Kim), Mayor of Miryang Park Il-ho, Miryang City Council Chairman Jeong-gyu Jeong, and Miryang Office of Education Superintendent Son Kyung-sun attended the event.
On this day, Park Sang-cheol (87) Ong, Kim Min-han (86), and Hwang Eui-jung (96) Ong, Hanam-eup, received plaques of appreciation and certificates. After that, Dr. Ki Kim’s lectures, sijochang, daegeum, and saxophone performances continued, leading to a rich feast.
Mayor Park Il-ho said, “With the wisdom and hard work of adults, the current development of Miryang City has occurred. I hope this event will be a meaningful opportunity to cultivate Confucianism and inspire filial piety.”
On the other hand, the Giiroyeon event is an event given by the king to comfort and respect elders over 70 years of age during the Joseon Dynasty.
◆The 44th Miryang Citizens Sports Competition held… Carry on an inexhaustible history
The ’44th Miryang Citizen’s Sports Festival’, which will be held for the first time in three years, will be held at the Miryang Sports Complex on the 8th.
This competition will take over the spirit of the Miryang Arirang Festival and prepare the venue for a festival that will once again make the citizens of Miryang excited.
The start of the Miryang Citizens’ Sports Festival, which marks its 44th anniversary this year, goes back to before liberation, and started with the ‘Miryang County People’s Athletic Association’ in 1926 and held every year until 1945. At that time, competitions of a similar size were held only in Seoul, Daegu, and Miryang, so you can guess its status.
Three years later, while the Republic of Korea was going through a turbulent period, a wind of change blew in the sports world in Miryang. After the establishment of the Miryang Public Stadium (currently Sammun-dong Public Stadium) in 1946 and the ‘Athletic Competition to commemorate the 8.15 Liberation and establishment of the new government’ in 1948, it was not until 1953 that the event was held again under the name of ‘Gunmin Grand Athletic Association’.
This name was changed to ‘Citizen Sports Competition’ when Miryang City was established in 1995 as an urban-rural complex integrating Miryang-si and Miryang-gun, and it is still in use.
The first runner of this year’s Citizens’ Sports Competition is the Gogojanggu performance. Gogojanggu is different from the janggu we are familiar with, it is a janggu that entrusts the body to an exciting rhythm in accordance with a trot in 4/4 time or pop and modern music. Since its establishment in 1997, Janggu has been sublimating the exciting charm of Janggu into Korea’s representative pop culture art. The sound of percussion instruments resounding ‘dumpling’ energizes the body that has not yet woken up.
The entrance ceremony of the Eup, Myeon and Dong team is also a must-see. After being lined up in the auxiliary stadium, the Eup, Myeon, and Dong teams, who enter the sports complex, are expected to attract the attention of the audience by displaying their own unique and distinctive signs.
At the end of the competition, a harmony is held. Singers Jin-sung and Park Hye-shin’s congratulatory performance boosts the excitement. In the ensuing Oullim Hanmadang, anyone, regardless of age or gender, can show off their singing skills on stage.
There will be a total of 6 events (Mixed Division 3, Non-Mixed Division 3).
In the cooperative obstacle event, the youth team participates. Move the props under the running runners so that the stepping stones do not break. At this point, attention is important. Release the legs at the right time so that the runner does not stop. It is a game where admiration comes from cooperation and laughter comes from quadrants.
Adults participate in the Hangung event. It is a lifestyle sports that everyone can enjoy by combining the strengths of the traditional game of tuho and western darts. Align the target, hangung pin, and eyes in a straight line and swing your arms lightly. The moment it hits the center of the target, cheers erupt.
In the women’s division, a penalty shootout game is prepared. Five players per team kick the ball in turn. You can feel the thrill of a game in which mistakes and surprises abound.
There are three events in the mixed division. Rugby ball relay dribbling, in which 6 players dribble a rugby ball with a relay to determine the ranking, a tug-of-war with 50 players per team, and an 800m obstacle run will decorate the finale of the event.
Mayor Park Il-ho of Miryang said, “I am very happy to be able to safely hold the Miryang Citizens’ Sports Festival, which boasts a long tradition and history.” said.
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