{"id":22465,"date":"2012-06-25T01:58:33","date_gmt":"2012-06-25T01:58:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newspaper.ctsi-logistics.com\/?p=22465"},"modified":"2012-06-25T01:58:33","modified_gmt":"2012-06-25T01:58:33","slug":"140-korean-dance-group-members-to-arrive-for-libday-parade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/140-korean-dance-group-members-to-arrive-for-libday-parade\/","title":{"rendered":"140 Korean dance group members to arrive for LibDay parade"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>By Ferdie de la Torre<br \/>\nReporter<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"border: 0px none;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/imgupload\/issx9999ns119905.jpg\" alt=\"Members of a Korean Brass Band along with their parents, conductor, and a principal gather for a photo in front of the Department of Public Safety's monument during the band's tour at DPS last week.  (Ferdie de la Torre)\" width=\"100\" height=\"75\" border=\"0\" \/>\u00a0 About 140 members of a dance group from South Korea will be joining the July 4th Liberation Day parade and festivities.<\/p>\n<p>JP Entertainment president Jun Ho Park is coordinating the visit of the Korean dance group.<\/p>\n<p>Park told Saipan Tribune that the 140 members will join the parade and perform at the nightly event during the weeklong Liberation Day celebration.<\/p>\n<p>The group will be arriving on Saipan on July 1 and 2.<\/p>\n<p>Park said he has been inviting and coordinating the visits of Korean musicians and dance performers since 1994 as part of a cultural exchange program for Liberation Day.<\/p>\n<p>It was Park who also invited the 60 members of the Hwasun Elementary School Brass Band from South Korea that performed during a fundraising concert for the benefit of the Saipan Southern High School&#8217;s Manta Ray Band on June 18 at the American Memorial Park.<\/p>\n<p>Park said the brass band is a very famous group in South Korea and its music conductor, Seo Kwang Yul, is also very popular in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Aside from the conductor and school principal, 15 parents accompanied the 60 5th grade and 6th grade students.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, brass band members and parents toured the Aging Center and the Department of Public Safety before flying back to Korea.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey&#8217;re having fun. Everybody is happy,\u201d said Park, referring to the students&#8217; tour at the Aging Center and DPS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ferdie de la Torre Reporter \u00a0 About 140 members of a dance group from&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22465\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}