Fukuoka Festival

The Hakata Dontaku is a Japanese festival held in Fukuoka, Japan every year in May. It has the largest attendance of any Japanese festival. This festival coincides with the Korean national holiday Children's Day, so I am thinking about going back for a few days to enjoy this event. I am particularly interested in hearing the traditional music and dance performances.

For example, play this fantastic video compilation of the event and crank up the volume. The music on this video, recorded from the event is wicked cool!



By the way, the way the girl on the left and the boy on the right are dressed is called Ganguro and is common to see among youth in everyday life in Japan.

Jeju Fire Festival

Definitely on my list of things to do in Korea is to go to the Jeju Fire Festival. I found some information about this event here and here. You can find out more about it on the Tour2Korea.com website too. The event was held in February of 2008 and is annual. I suppose it will be in February every year.

Here are a couple of short video clips I found on the Internet.