Korea Meets Sri Lanka- in celebration of the 1^st anniversary of the state visit of H.E. Mahinda Rajapaksa to the Republic of Korea

The Embassy of the Republic of Korea and the Ministry of Culture and the Arts of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka will co-organize the “Korea –Sri Lanka Friendship Evening” at the Nelum Pokuna Mahinda Rajapaksa theatre on 25th and 26th of April 2013 6.00 pm onwards.

The event celebrates the 1st anniversary of the state visit of H.E. Mahinda Rajapaksa to the Republic of Korea. Further, the Korean tele-drama, Janggumi, Jewel in the Palace (Sujatha Diyani) recently became extremely popular in Sri Lanka and the growing popularity of K pop among Sri Lankan youth shows that there is a new opportunity to enhance relations between the two countries.

The Korean government believes that this cultural event and many upcoming exchanges between the two countries will promote friendship and strengthen the ties between Korea and Sri Lanka.

Who will be performing?

The performances will be by Jinjo Crew and Queen. Jinjo Crew is a globally recognized break dance team, which is currently ranked number 1 in the world. They have made a grand slam of all five of the world’s greatest b-boy major leagues; Red Bull BC one 2008, battle of the year 2009, free style session 2011, R-16 Korea 2010,2011,2012 and UK b-boy championship 2012.

Queen is a female fusion Gukak (traditional Korean music) band that combines sounds of East and West. They will take you along a musical journey from traditional Korean music to the modern k pop with their very unique musical instruments such as Geomungo (traditional Korean harp), Haekum (traditional Korean musical instrument-strings) and electric violin.

A welcome act will be performed by a dance troupe from the Ministry of Culture and the Arts of Sri Lanka.

Getting Tickets

The event is free of charge and open to public but you need an invitation! Here is how you can get your invitations:

Write your name, postal address, contact number, date on which you wish to attend and email to [email protected]. Please note that only a limited number of invitations are available, so please request your invitation at the earliest.

All the relevant information is available through our social media (facebook/korembsl, twitter/korembsl and the Embassy website) and it is open to the public. Even non-facebook users are able to access information. We encourage everyone to connect via Facebook, so that it is easier to keep in touch with everyone who intends to attend the event.