Ho Chi Minh City Theater Association Enhances Cooperation with Busan Theater Association

Lee Jung Nam, head of Republic of Korea (RoK)’s Busan Theater Association, Senior Vice President of Busan Culture and Arts Federation, Executive Director MAC Theater Company; and Yoo Harim, CEO of Brand New K Company, Director of Vietnam Branch, Keystone Marketing Company on March 18 met leaders of the Ho Chi Minh City Theater Association.

Busan Theater Association and Ho Chi Minh City Theater Association present books to each other at the first meeting. Source: Thanh Hiep/Laborer newspaper

Busan Theater Association is a unit with a long history of operations with many achievements in culture and art. Each year the association organizes two festivals in June and October. Currently there are 350 members, in addition to singing and dancing performances, there are also musical instrument performances.

At the meeting, Lee kindly invited the HCM City Theater Association to attend the cultural festival held in October this year in Busan.

Director Ton That Can, Standing Vice President of the HCM City Theater Association, gave an overview of the activities of the HCM City Theater Association, introducing his guests about the Small Theatre of HCM City, a socialization unit that has achieved many achievements in the performing arts, along with the training Center that trains many students, and the HCM City Artists' Friendship Board actively cares for single elderly and sickly artists - a unique model only found in Vietnam.

Members of the Busan Theater Association were surprised to learn that in HCM City there is a nursing home for single elderly artists in poor health.

Lee said that this will be the first meeting, in the future there will be many meetings to further discuss the goals of exchange and performance activities between the two associations.

People's Artist Tran Ngoc Giau, President of the HCM City Theater Association, hopes to have the opportunity to organize exchanges and performances with the Busan Theater Association, to tighten the cultural, artistic and theatrical exchange relationship between the two associations, thereby creating high-quality cultural and artistic works to serve audiences in the two countries.

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