| Title | The world's first chopsticks festival held in Cheongju |
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| Writer | Culture and arts Division |
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The world's first chopsticks festival held in Cheongju
- On November 11th, Day of chopsticks, China and Japan will participate in seminars and exhibitions - Being designated as 2015 Culture City of East Asia, Cheongju-si has appointed Day of Chopsticks on November 11 and will host the world's first chopstick festival. Chopsticks stand for cultural archetype of Korea and Japan and a symbol of life culture, containing indigenous life and beauty of the nations, which can develop into culture and art such as diverse cultural products and performance contents. Particularly, 3 countries, Korea, China, and Japan, can interact with one another with common culture content, chopsticks. Chopsticks project has originated from suggestion of Lee O-young, Honorary Chairperson (first culture minister) of the Culture City of East Asia. The honorary chairperson Mr. Lee said "Using chopsticks is common culture of Korea, China, and Japan, containing philosophy, aesthetics, and history, and also a unique culture of the world that changes conflict and confrontation to reconciliation and 'get-together' culture in an era of Asia," and "international communities will participate in the festival in an easy, interesting way because of simplicity, repeatability, dailiness, and popular appeal of the festival." He also emphasized "Cheongju is the best place that can specialize various cultural contents with chopsticks theme as it has the characteristics of life culture cities and education culture cities," and "the city should mark a new milestone of Cheongju-oriented chopsticks culture by globalizing sub-culture connected to chopsticks, food, clothing, and shelter, and developing contents in regards to festival program." Therefore, exhibitions, seminars, and events with chopsticks theme, and a chopsticks week and chopsticks-related events will be held in Cheongju this autumn. From November 4 to December 17, a special exhibition of chopsticks will be held in National Cheongju Museum, presenting tradition history of chopsticks ranging from traditional chopsticks of Korea, China, and Japan to modern chopsticks and contemporary creative work, and introducing culture related to food, clothing, and shelter. During the period, many different experience events with chopsticks theme will be held. The authority will also make efforts to develop chopsticks into worldwide cultural goods, planning to discover artists and goods of quality and commercialize them through development of chopsticks cultural products. Furthermore, the authority plans to develop and specialize future-oriented chopsticks linked to IT industry by collaborating with research institutions. Also, contests and performances such as chopsticks prodigy contest will be held on November 11, Day of Chopsticks. On this day, the main tournament will be held through preliminary rounds divided by infant, student, adult and international divisions. Furthermore, diversified program such as performing art events and performances using beat with chopsticks will be presented. Also, Quanzhou, China and Yokohama, Japan and Qingdao, China and Nigata, Japan, designated as Culture City of East Asia in 2014 and 2015, respectively, will participate in the program. Seminars will be conducted in the form of short lectures and discussions of experts at home and abroad with 3 sessions such as culture, science and economy. Particularly, this will serve as a meeting place to discuss diverse academic, economic values based on chopsticks, such as chopsticks and brain development, chopsticks and design industry, and chopsticks-wise comparative culture in East Asia. Apart from this, Cheongju will create a chopsticks village and a life design village and develop diverse culture and tourism products using chopsticks. A chopsticks village and a life design village will specialize in a handicraft village in Cheongju region to develop creation, exhibition, education, and experience activities. Furthermore, Cheongju-si will specialize in, and develop Cheongju-oriented chopsticks culture by bringing IT, BT, NT, and CT together and displaying creative values, and develop education contents and publishing business. "Cheongju is a city where the value of life and culture is harmonized with the value of education culture, having resources that can be a global issue such as handicraft biennale, jikji, King Sejong's rural palace in Chojeong," said a city official, "we will develop worldwide cultural heritages, culture industry, future food resources, and killer contents by connecting Choengju's own brands and value with chopsticks culture." ▶Contact: Planning and Media Relation Team of Cheongju Office of the Culture City of East Asia (☎201-2018) |
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