Diversity enlivens HUFS Festa

The 2003 HUFS Festa, the festival which shows most the unique character of HUFS, was held from September 23 to 26 for four days. This year, two main existing festivals the ¡°Seminjeon¡± and the ¡°World Film Festival¡± were held together under one theme, ¡°Imagine.¡±
The festival consisted of main events at the Open Theater which included a singing contest, performances of dongaris in the daytime and movie showings during the evening. Various movies from many countries were shown by each departments of HUFS, ¡°Younghwawoolim,¡± a movie dongari and A.V, a movie club in the Business & Economics Division.
On the opening day, the ¡°Nanta¡± performance team was invited and entertained the audience. In addition, Alain Kim (C-02), a singer from Taiwan and Park Hye-kyung, a popular singer performed and received good responses. About 20 students participated and displayed their talents at the singing contest on the second day. However, the scheduled events, ¡°Movie Quiz Golden Bell¡± and the game with eggs were canceled because there were too few participants.
The World Drink Exhibition, World Chrysanthemum Exhibition and Free Market were held as an extra events during the festival. ¡°I think the atmosphere of the street extra events is less active than in Daedongje of May ,¡± Lee Geul (J-01) said.
The highlight of the festival, the exotic performances from each department of HUFS were held on the last day of it. Sixteen teams from the Department of Occidental Languages and Oriental Languages performed folk songs and dances passionately. The audience which filled the Open Theater concentrated on each stage of the performances and lots of people kept to their seats until the end of the festival. ¡°It was very good to see every great performances with traditional costumes which I could not see in our university festival,¡± a sophomore student of Yonsei University, Choi Hye-chan said. And a popular singer, Lee Jeok was invited and he boosted the festival into a feverish atmosphere.
¡°We tried to make the festival a much broader event in which many students who do not belong to the College of Occidental Languages and Oriental Languages also can participate in,¡± said Choi Eun-kyu (P-00), the president of the Organizing Committee from the College of Occidental Languages.

By Baek Mi-sun / The Argus