(19 Jun 2025)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Ansan, South Korea - 10 June 2025
1. Various of Dongchoon Circus performance
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Seoul, South Korea - 9 June 2025
2. SOUNDBITE (Korean) : Park Sae-hwan, Head of Dongchoon Circus ++SOUNDBITE STARTS ON PREVIOUS SHOT AND IS OVERLAID BY SHOT3++
"As I recall the hardship that I’ve gone through, I think I’ve done something significant. But I also feel heavy responsibility because if Dongchoon stops, our country’s circus, one genre in our performing arts, will disappear. That’s the problem.”
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Ansan, South Korea - 10 June 2025
3. Various of Dongchoon Circus performance
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Seoul, South Korea - 9 June 2025
4. SOUNDBITE (Korean) : Park Sae-hwan, Head of Dongchoon Circus ++SOUNDBITE STARTS ON PREVIOUS SHOT AND IS OVERLAID BY SHOT5++
"I thought Dongchoon must not disappear. When we want to study the roots of our country's dramas, we should look back on the traces of Dongchoon. The same goes for the history of our other shows, traditional music performances and magic shows as well as circuses themselves."
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Ansan, South Korea - 10 June 2025
5. Various of Dongchoon Circus tent exterior
6. Various of Dongchoon Circus performance
7. SOUNDBITE (Korean) : Sim Chung-yong, 61, spectator ++SOUNDBITE STARTS ON PREVIOUS SHOT AND IS OVERLAID BY SHOT8++
"It was a very impressive and meaningful circus but more than that I found it deeply moving and significant because this is the only circus in the country. That process must have involved so much pain and hardship for them. So rather than feeling simple joy or excitement, I found myself thinking more about their struggles—how much hard work they had to endure, even from such a young age."
8. Various of circus performers practicing before the performance
STORYLINE:
Acrobats twirl, suspended over the audience, jugglers perform tricks with hats and and performers ride a unicycle on a tightrope under the big top.
There are no more elephant and monkey acts. No more death-defying motorbike stunts. No more singing or acting on stage.
Despite that, the performances here please the audience, who clap constantly. The Dongchoon Circus Troupe is South Korea’s last, and it's been going for a hundred years.
“As I recall the hardship that I’ve gone through, I think I’ve done something significant,” says Park Sae-hwan, the head of the circus.
He joined the Dongchoon circus in 1963. He says he feels a heavy responsibility because "if Dongchoon stops, our country’s circus, one genre in our performing arts, will disappear".
Founded in 1925, Dongchoon is the country's oldest circus.
In the golden ages of South Korean circuses in the 1960s, when most households still had no TVs, Dongchoon travelled across the country, wowing audiences with exot... [truncated]
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