{"id":11922,"date":"2026-05-11T03:26:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T03:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/11922\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T03:26:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T03:26:09","slug":"seoul-drum-festival-returns-to-dongdaemun-design-plaza-may-16-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/11922\/","title":{"rendered":"Seoul Drum Festival returns to Dongdaemun Design Plaza May 16-17"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"mb2-plus4\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Seoul Drum Festival.jpg\" alt=\"Several women and children playing drums.\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"default-font lh-default ma0 mh3 mt0 pb3\">\n\t\t\t\tSeoul Drum Festival (Photo by Seoul Metropolitan Government\/courtesy of haps Magazine Korea)<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"storyline-p f4 \">The 28th Seoul Drum Festival will take place May 16\u201317 at Dongdaemun Design Plaza (DDP), bringing together international artists and public participants for two days of percussion-focused events.&#13;<\/p>\n<p class=\"storyline-p f4 \">Held under the theme \u201cDrum Dream People,\u201d the festival combines live performances, parades, workshops and interactive programs. One of the main highlights is a large-scale percussion parade featuring 12 artist groups and 212 participants who have trained together over the past three months.&#13;<\/p>\n<p class=\"storyline-p f4 \">The parade will move through central Seoul before reaching the main venue.&#13;<\/p>\n<p class=\"storyline-p f4 \">The performance lineup includes internationally recognized drummer Donald Barrett, along with a mix of Korean and international performers representing traditional, jazz and contemporary styles.&#13;<\/p>\n<p class=\"storyline-p f4 \">Workshops and master classes will also be offered, covering instruments and techniques such as handpan, finger drumming and body percussion.&#13;<\/p>\n<p class=\"storyline-p f4 \">The festival is free to attend, with select workshops requiring advance registration through the official website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Seoul Drum Festival (Photo by Seoul Metropolitan Government\/courtesy of haps Magazine Korea) The 28th Seoul Drum Festival will&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11923,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[581,9063,9061,9000,1947,1941,1942,9062,9058,9060,9055,9053,9056,9059,1943,9054,112,9052,9057],"class_list":["post-11922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-seoul","tag-attractions-in-seoul","tag-body-percussion","tag-contemporary-music","tag-ddp","tag-dongdaemun-design-plaza","tag-events-in-korea","tag-events-in-seoul","tag-instruments","tag-interactive-programs","tag-jazz","tag-live-performances","tag-parade","tag-parades","tag-percussion","tag-performances","tag-public-programs","tag-seoul","tag-seoul-drum-festival","tag-workshops"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11922\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}