By Joen Oh, Year 13
Korean Night Committee Leader
Korean Night is an annual event, with a long history, dating back to 2009. Korean and non-Korean students from the Boys school and the Girls school get together to showcase Korean culture through a variety of traditional and modern performances. Our traditional performances include Mask dance, samulnori, taekwondo, nanta, fan dance, and doll dance. Our modern performances include K-POP dance, rap, and band.
Our Korean Night this year was very successful, with over 1600 audience members who came and supported Westlake Korean Night.
This year, our compelling haka opened up the night, followed by doll dance, a traditional Korean couple dance performed by our adorable junior students. The night continued with taekwondo performers showing off our traditional Korean martial arts. Fan dance showed off Korea’s beautiful traditional dress, the Hanbok, along with their flawless coordination and teamwork which was the result of their hard work and practice. Our Nanta got the crowd going wild with their mix of traditional and modern pieces, and even used glow-in-the-dark drumsticks to leave a strong visual impression. Some of the other performances that got the crowd engaged were our K-POP dances, mask dance, samulnori, rap and band.
We would like to personally thank all staff members, prefects, and cultural committee members who helped us out on the night. We could not have done it without all of your help. We would also like to thank everyone, on behalf of the 2022 Westlake Korean Night committee, who came and supported us on the night.
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