North Korean Orchestra Prepares for Their Performance in South Korea
|Kim Jong-un’s propaganda squad is getting ready for their big performance in South Korea:
North Korea’s art troupe on Wednesday held a rehearsal for its upcoming performances in South Korea, which will celebrate the PyeongChang Winter Olympics.
The 140 member-strong Samjiyon Orchestra traveled to the South by ferry Tuesday to perform in Gangneung, a sub-host city of the Feb. 9-25 Winter Games, on Thursday, and in Seoul on Sunday.
It will be the first performance by North Koreans in the South since 2002, when Pyongyang sent a cohort of 30 singers and dancers from several music and performance groups to Seoul for a joint event.
After having lunch in their Mangyongbong-92 ferry, which is docked at the South Korean eastern port of Mukho, the North Koreans showed up at the Gangneung Arts Center, the venue of their first performance, at about 3:40 p.m. on Wednesday in an atmosphere quite different from that of the morning.
They changed to casual attire from the stylish red coats and black fur hats and ankle boots for female members and from black coats and hats for males. [Yonhap]
You can read more at the link, but I see that the reason they brought the performers by ferry is because it can serve as a floating jail for them.
From Yonhap:
More than 150,000 people applied for free tickets to the two performances – 39,109 for first performance in Gangneung and 117,123 for the performance in Seoul. 280 tickets are available for Gangneung and 250 are available for Seoul.
http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/news/2018/02/03/0200000000AEN20180203002251315.html
Best assembly of South Korean commies in one place.
Casual or not, the red and black are “revolutionary” colours, and (according to Daily NK) are designed to send a message of intransigence to the South.
Have they all been de-wormed?
They look like they stepped out of 1991.