Since the 1970s Andong has developed rapidly and in the late 1990s and early 2000s it became a tourism and cultural center. It is renowned for its traditional culture and folk traditions and the surrounding area maintains a wealth of tangible and intangible cultural treasures and ancient traditions. The festival, has been selected by the South Korean Ministry of Culture and Tourism as the country’s best festival for the past 6 years, for three years it has been selected as Korea’s Representative Festival and this year it has been selected as the Korea’s Honorable Representative Festival . It continues to receive national government support via the Ministry, which has been enacting successful policies to stimulate cultural businesses via culture, tourism and technology.The Festival, which attracts approximately one million spectators each year, showcases traditional Korean culture at its best. As well as promoting Korean culture to the international community, the 10-days Maskdance Festival is a good opportunity for Koreans, as well as foreign visitors, to experience and view both Western and Oriental culture. Around 300 programs including Korean and international Maskdances and Folk games will be available to the many visitors.
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Note |
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1997 |
Apl |
Found the N.G.O for festival | |
Oct |
Hold the festival 1997 |
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Dec |
Selected as 5 focused festival |
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1998 | Sep |
Hold the festival 1998 |
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Dec |
Selected as 6 focused festival |
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1999 | Oct |
Hold the festival 1999 | |
Dec | 2nd awarded festival of Korea |
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2000 | Sep |
Hold the festival 2000 | |
Dec | 1st awarded festival of Korea |
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2001 | Oct |
Hold the festival 2001 |
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Dec | Selected as best tourism and culture festival (1st time) |
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2002 | Oct |
Hold the festival 2002 |
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Dec | Selected as best tourism and culture festival (2nd times) |
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2003 | Sep |
Hold the festival 2003 |
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Dec |
Selected as best tourism and culture festival (3rd times) |
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2004 | Oct |
Hold the festival 2004 |
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Dec |
Selected as best tourism and culture festival (4th times) |
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2005 | Sep |
Hold the festival 2005 |
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Dec | Selected as best tourism and culture festival (5th times) |
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2006 | Sep |
Hold the festival 2006 |
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Dec |
Selected as best tourism and culture festival (6th times) |
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2007 | Jan |
Hold the festival 2007 |
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2008 | Jan | Selected as representative festival of Korea, 2008 |
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Sep |
Hold the festival 2008 |
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2009 | Jan |
Selected as representative festival of Korea, 2009 |
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Sep |
Cancel cause by A.I |
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2010 | Jan |
Selected as representative festival of Korea, 2010 |
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Sep | Hold the festival 2010 | ||
Dec |
Selected as honorable representative festival of Korea, 2011 |