North Korean Mass Games
are the greatest human performances on the earth. Since 1946, North Korea has regularly staged those mass gymnastics games and performances. They have grown even bigger over the years and are a result of long hours and months of serious training of thousands of people.
The most recent and largest Mass Games were called "Arirang". The word Arirang means a folk song, sung in both North and South Korea, that has come to symbolize the Koreans’ love for their homeland, and their desire for the reunification of the nation and peoples. The last Mass Games were performed six nights a week for two months, and involved over 100,000 performers. This incredible show retold the tale of North Korean history.
The Mass Games usually take place to celebrate national holidays such as the birthdays of rulers Kim II Sung and Kim Jong II. They give the youth something to shoot for – the chance to be the best of the bests, to perform, perhaps even in front of their Dear General Kim Jong II.
It is a great spectacle of music, marching, dancing and gymnastics. About 50,000-100,000 synchronized gymnasts and school kids take part of the Arirang Festival. The event itself takes place in the world’s largest stadium in Pyongyang.
It needs much discipline, skills and commitment to do something like that. The unity of those thousands of performances makes this show unique.
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