Seoul Drum Festival

On October 9, Sunday night, we went downtown to City Hall with our friends Erica and Eric to watch the Drum Festival. The Seoul Plaza right there by city hall has a large area where they set up a stage and lay out mats to sit on. We were surrounded by a pretty international crowd. The first group was an American Jazz group. I guess they were invited because they had drums and a bongo player. They were okay - good for chatting. Then we saw a guys group from Korea do a whole drum/dance sequence with regular drums, bongos, etc and with plastic drums. They had choreographed fire bursts, light and video going on around them. It was really impressive. The next act - not so cool - The Swedish Duo. Yeah. So we went to Duncan Donuts for coffee.

Seoul Plaza also has a lighted water fountain that I thought was cool. Reminded me of those "Light-and-Bright" toys from way back. We were really excited to get out and do something in Seoul. We kind of get into a "movies and dinner" rut. So now we're going to be looking for more things to do "out" in Korea.