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The Korean connection
Updated On: 24 September, 2021 12:39 PM IST | Mumbai | Maithili Chakravarthy
With K-dramas emerging as a popular trend in urban India, a leading storyteller from South Korea will dramatise two age-old Korean stories at a virtual event this weekend
Seung Ah performs at a public storytelling event in pre-pandemic times
South Korea has a rich, mystical tradition in storytelling. Traditional stories on love and romance were sung and performed by shamans and pansori singers who utilise drums as a form of musical storytelling (‘pan’ means ‘open space’; ‘sori’ translates to song in Korean). The open-air performance tradition is referred to in the term. These storytelling rituals helped introduce folktales to its people.
With our ongoing fascination for K-dramas, viewers in India have been introduced to many of these stories. Viewers enjoy unwinding with a feel-good K-drama, being lost in plots that focus on relationships, in the backdrop of Korea’s modern society that is reminiscent of scenarios in their own set-ups.
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