The Beauty of Buchaechum, a Fan Dance From South Korea

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South Korea is famous for it's K-Pop music that has spawned thousands of fans in Asia even in the world. South Korea is also very creative and active to introduce the culture, history and it's traditional arts through Korean drama which proved to encourage high tourist visits. Inadvertently the Korean drama audiences are learning and familiarizing themselves with Korean art and culture. Not only the location of natural and cultural tourism, even where the location of the filming is often a hunt the traveler. Well, you're one of those Korean drama fans who are planning a holiday to Korea? Let's take a look at one of the very popular Korean cultural art of Buchaechum Dance.

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History of Buchaechum Dance

Buchaechum is taken from Korean, Buchae which means Fan and Chum which means dance.The traditional dance of Buchaechum itself originally was derived from ancient rituals thousands of years ago which was displayed at a worship ceremony to the gods of Korean Shamanism. Korean shamanism itself is an ancient belief of Korean society that also combines beliefs and is influenced by native religions such as Buddhism and Taoism.

Basically, the Shaman itself is synonymous with ancient shamanism. In Shamanism's own ritual, the Dancer will hold a ceremony of development or gut, in which the Mudang (possessed) will act as an intermediary between the god and man with various purposes such as, the occurrence of healing and various fortunes.

Usually in Korean traditional dance, the fan is used as a side property only. But in this dance Fan is the center. Quoted from Inspired Steps, Kim Baekbong was mentioned as the bearer of this dance and performed it in 1954. The dance focuses on showing the beauty of the neat arrangement of the dancers' fans.

Along with the development of the era, Buchaechum Dance got support from the government and society to continue to be preserved and developed.

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Buchaechum dance also changed function not only displayed for the purposes of religious ritual ceremony only but performed in cultural arts events, festivals, festivals or in annual celebration events. Buchacheum dance became a traditional dance at the reception of state guests. Buchaechum dance is also growing and varied movement imitate the beauty of nature such as the movement of waves in the sea, flowers, and butterflies are flying wagging soft wings.

According to Curtis Files in his book Korean Dance: Pure Emotion and Energy said that Buchaechum itself began to show its beauty to the world through its appearance at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico last year. Since then Buchaechum has become increasingly recognized internationally

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The Characteristic of Buchaenchum

The uniqueness and characteristic of this Buchaechum dance movement is when the dancers form a circular formation and use the fan forming a bumpy movement, forming a flying butterfly and cascade of flowers in the wind make this dance movement very beautiful. This dance is more elegant with traditional costumes and headdresses resemble the crown of each dancer's head. This Buchaechum dance combines visual arts and elegance. So it is not wrong if this dance became a very famous Traditional Dance of South Korea and is often featured in annual events, festivals and state events.

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Buchaechum dancers are usually a group of women. Buchacheum dance clothing design that uses traditional hanbok clothes that have motifs and colors that change in accordance with the direction of fashion trends. You'll see a variety of costumes from Buchaecum hanbok costumes with brightly colored designs at the annual celebrations in South Korea. But they usually use dominated pink color hanbok, the fan used in appearance is usually colored similar.