Fireworks festival to decorate Busan's night sky
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Korea's largest port city Busan will light up Gwangalli Beach with colorful pyrotechnics and high-end multimedia technology for this year's fireworks festival.
The Busan Metropolitan Government revealed early this week its plan to hold the fourth Busan Fireworks Festival, scheduled to take place over Gwangalli Beach on Oct. 18 by upgrading its event programs.
The theme this year is 'Hope,' representing hope for the individual, the city and the establishment of peace and prosperity of the whole East Asia, this year's festival will use a mix of fireworks, music and lasers to tell special stories of ordinary citizens.
According to the plan, the city will upgrade the program of this eve celebration on Oct. 17 and the main day's events by engaging more ordinary citizens in the event and upgrading festival facilities and sideline programs.
This year's festival is expected to attract over 1.5 million people by presenting world-class multi media show and providing related tourism packages.
The city will receive letters and personal stories on- or off-line from citizens during the preparation period and several touching stories of these selected people will be introduced during the 50-minute fireworks show on the evening of Oct. 17, followed by candlelight-shaped fireworks and a multi media show by a famous team from Fukuoka, Busan's sister city.
The main events of the festival on Oct. 18 comprise a two-part series program. The first part will begin with a dazzling celebration pyrotechnic show on the ship near the Gwangan daegyo (bridge), and a joint traditional Korean music (kukak) and hip hop performance, tight rope dancing and other related programs will follow at the festival venue on Gwangalli Beach.
In the second part, a massive-scale fireworks show will begin after a countdown by up to 1.5 million visitors gathered on the beach and at Nurimaru APEC House.
The city office will open Nurimaru APEC House, the venue for the Busan APEC summit 2005, to festivalgoers as a special vantage point and will also provide seats for the comfort of spectators who will gather at Gwangalli Beach.
For the show, as many as 85,000 individual firecrackers will be used to decorate Busan's night sky by creating spectacular shapes and displays, including a one-kilometer-wide Niagara Waterfall and a flying phoenix backed by a colorful laser show and thrilling sound effects.
Since Busan held the first festival to mark its successful hosting of the 2005 APEC summit in 2005, the city's fireworks festival have won acclaim both nationwide and overseas. Backed by a substantial increase of large-scale special effects never before used in a Korean fireworks display, last year's festival drew 1.3 million tourists and was broadcast live on the Internet.
The source of news : Korea.net May 24, 2008
