As a follow up to my post on Kpop, because Kpop is involved,
I want to cover something incredible that you might be able to experience while
studying at a Korean university. That is their university festivals. Now you
may ask what is so special about these university festivals. Good question.
University festivals from what I saw, are usually three day
long events held by each individual university. They’re not all held on the same
days rather, from what I saw, each university festival was staggered after
another university’s festival ended. From
what I understood, these university festivals are usually held during the
spring semesters, but due to certain events that happened in the spring of last
year, a large amount of university festivals were postponed until the fall
semester. As such I was able to experience a few during my stay this past fall.
They may only be three days but they are absolutely packed
with fun activities. During the day, a large majority of university clubs each
set up their own stands where they run games and sell snacks and food that they
make. Additionally, some of the clubs and associations also set up traditional
Korean performances.
At my host university, throughout the entire day they had
two stages with live bands playing through the entire day. However, the main
draws of the university festivals happen after it gets dark. For those of you
that are of legal drinking age, a lot of the clubs also each set up their own “beer
tents” where, you guessed it, they sold discounted beer and served snacks to
with them. These are incredible opportunities to get to make plenty of Korean
friends by playing a few drinking games with them. However, only do so if you
are over the legal drinking age, and if you do, drink responsibly.
At the end of each night, is when the main events of the
university festivals happen. At mot universities, they bring in one or two big
Kpop performers to perform at the university’s main stage. At a few of the
university festivals I attended, I was able to see groups such as 9 Muses,
Sistar, and Orange Caramel. These are awesome performances, even if you’re not
very into Kpop, and the Korean students go absolutely crazy over them.
Overall, these
university festivals are amazing and if you get the opportunity, try your best
to attend at least one before your semester ends.
Performers at different university festival.
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