Ulsan World Music Festival – Oct 2-5, 2014
Arguably the best festival held in Ulsan, the World Music Festival brings musicians from different countries and different musical genres together in a weekend of great music. It takes place this year from Thursday, October 2nd to Sunday, October 5th at the Ulsan Culture and Arts Center (울산 문화 어술회관 – Ulsan Moon-hwa Aw-sool-hwee-gwan for a taxi driver) in Namgu (the location is pinned on the Interactive Map under “Culture” and “Cultural Center”), next to the Namgu-cheong office (Namgu-cheong also works for taxi directions).
The website for the festival doesn’t seem to have an English page or a very user-friendly navigation this year, so I’ve written out the UWMF line up below. All venues are in and around the Culture Center. There are usually lots of tents with food, beer, souvenirs, and lots of other stuff to check out.
For a preview of the musicians, check out this awesome YouTube playlist put together by Tyson Monk!
King Theatre
10.2 – 19:30 – Palsandae – Traditional Korean drummers
10.2 – 21:30, 10.3 – 20:30 – Myele Manzanza & the Eclectic – Funk, Soul – New Zealand
10.3 – 18:30, 10.4 – 21:00 – Lau – Celtic, Folk – Britain
10.4 -19:00, 10.5 – 19:30 – Maya Kamaty – World Folk – Reunion Islands
10.5 – 17:30 – Arifa – World Jazz – Romania, Greece, Germany, Turkey/Netherlands
Small Theatre (this information isn’t on the website, but is on the schedule as posted to their Facebook page – all bands are Korean, I believe)
10.2 – 18:30 – Yi Sung Yol
10.2 – 19:50 – Sun Woo JungA
10.2 – 21:10 – Baraji
10.2 – 22:30 – Uhuhboo Project
10.3 – 18:00 – Bidulgi Ooyoo
10.3 – 19:20 – Electric Samulnori
10.3 – 20:40 – Idiotape
10.4 – 18:20 – The Tune
10.4 – 19:40 – Acoustic Ensemble Jebi
10.4 – 21:00 – Juk Juk Grunzie
Open Stage
10.2 – 20:00 – Jambinai – Post Rock – Korea
10.2 – 22:00, 10.3 – 20:00 – DakhaBrakha – Contemporary Folk – Ukraine
10.3 – 22:00, 10.4 – 21:00 – Abby – Electronic Rock – Germany
10.4 – 16:30, 10.5 – 18:30 – Depedro – Latin Rumba – Spain
10.4 – 18:30, 10.5 – 16:30 – Dino D’Santiago – World – Portugal, Cape Verde
Party Tent
10.2 – 20:30 – Jin Geum Soon – Traditional, Folk – Korea
10.2 – 22:30 – Wadada Sound – Roots, Reggae – Korea
10.3 – 19:00 – 4 in Nori – Traditional, Folk – Korea
10.3 – 21:00 – Kim Ban Jang & Han_Madangs – Roots, Reggae – Korea
10.3 – 22:30 – Hoarang, feat. Ahn Ji Suk – Roots, Dub – Korea, France
10.4 – 18:00 – Ji Chang Soo – Traditional Performing Arts – Korea
10.4 – 20:10 – Funkafric – Soul, Funk – Korea
10.4 – 20:30 – DJ Soulscape – Soul, Funk, Hip-Hop – Korea
Cheoyong Madang
10.3 – 21:00, 10.4 – 21:00 – Busquito’s – Jazz, Gypsy – Netherlands
To read up on the bands, go to the Website, and click the purple button on the picture of the man (행사일정펴), then
Click the purple button on his butt.
on the next page, under “Events” click the fourth option (UMWF is in brackets) – that will take you to the full line up with descriptions of each act – the link for the page just takes you to the main web page again, sadly.
Click the fourth option under Events – (UWMF)
This page! Scroll around! Read about the music!