South Korea’s traditional festival of masks and culture.
In South Korea, in the Andong region, there is an age-old event that celebrates the country’s traditions of dancing and masks. It’s the Andong International Maskdance Festival and it’s been going on for many years. As the legend goes, in the year 1300, the spirits visited a person and told them that they needed to design masks and then ritually dance to appease those spirits. The man obeyed, and since then the tradition grew into
