Arirang-Festival

The Arirang Festival is a North Korean mass event, which takes place in the stadium first of May in Pyongyang and is named after the ancient Korean folk song Arirang.

The Arirang Festival showcases the history of North Korea by means of mass and mass dances gymnastics. At the event, over 100,000 people work with. It will be adjusted in a precise mass choreography on the lawn episodes from both the revolutionary past, such as the actions of the two leaders, Kim Il- sung and Kim Jong- il, and the great view of North Korean development of the present. In the stands behind the dance, or gymnastics formations sit tens of thousands of other contributors, the giant of individual colored cardboard cards pictures trace that looks similar to the effect of a big screen. The Arirang Festival is listed in the Guinness Book of Records in 2007 as the largest event of its kind.

The event usually takes place in spring and autumn of each year, but there are always irregular exceptions to this rule. For the year 2011, the period was scheduled from August 1 to September 9.

To visit the Arirang Festival, exceptionally visas for nationals of South Korea are granted. Some years, this period was also the only way in which the entry for U.S. tourists has been approved, but these can enter the country since 2009 at any time.

Similar mass events are often held in North Korea, for example, on holidays at the Kim Il-sung Stadium. In Rungnado -May Day Stadium, a new event called the Grand Magic Show was held in the spring of 2011, which was based on the representation of the Arirang Festival.