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One of the Korean top eight festivals, which is the CHUNCHEON PUPPET FESTIVAL.

As one of the Korean top eight festivals, the Chuncheon puppet Festival held for the first time in September, 1998 is the Korean greatest size of puppet festival where amateurs and professional acting troupes participate together. The puppet acting troupes from various nations of the world participate and show the high levels of performances, and seek for enhancing the international exchanges of theatre acting troupes, and their qualities. It is also the performance art festival for children, which provides a new artistic experience to children through puppet plays and side events.
As for performances, you can enjoy the hand puppet play, rod puppet play, string puppet play, shadow puppet play, whole body mask puppet play, and mixed play(Bokhapgeuk), etc. variously. The Chuncheon puppet festival tried to contribute to develop children's emotions by strengthening the children participating programs that have high educational effects, such as the amateur puppet play contest, street parade, puppet display on the street, paper folding, and painting the puppet play, etc., in addition to abundant performances such as the performance by formally inviting the acting troupe of overseas each nation, free participation performance, and Myeongdong street performance, etc. It prepared a new lot based on which it will be reborn as the mecca of the puppet play by opening the 'Chuncheon puppet only theatre' and the 'nation of water, the nation of dream', and will take off as the Chuncheon puppet Festival, which advances toward the world, more forcibly.