▲This photo shows flowers located at Itaewon to pay tribute to victims. (Yonhap)

 

▲This photo, a captured image of SPAF, shows that their concert has been canceled. (PHOTO NOT FOR SALE) (Yonhap)

 

 

SEOUL, Oct. 31 (Yonhap) -- Regarding the Itaewon Stampede happened on last Friday, musical and performing arts fields are canceling concerts and events and offering condolences.

2022 Seoul Performing Arts Festival (hereafter SPAF), which took place from Oct.6 to Oct.30, canceled all the performances planned for Oct. 30, the last day of the event.

Four planned performances such as dance performance "Pig dance" (translate) and audience participatory performance "Light performance: forest of abyss" (translated) were cancelled.

Executive office of SPAF said, "We have decided to cancel the performances as the national mourning period has been fixed until the midnight of Nov. 5," adding, "We send our condolence to the victims and their families and wish speed recovery of the injured."

Culture & arts organizations such as Sejong center and Korea National University of Arts have temporarily delayed events and festival that were to occur this week.

Sejong center has delayed the kick-off ceremony of student press, which was to open on Monday, and is discussing whether to hold performances of affiliated organization.

However, non-festive performances such as the Seoul Theater Company's play "The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work" will be held as scheduled.

Korea National University of Arts temporarily postponed their 30th anniversary of the foundation scheduled to be held at the Seokgwan-dong campus on Monday to after the national mourning period.

Some performances are held as a tribute to the victims. The closing concert of the 2022 Seoul International Music Festival, which was held at the Seoul Arts Center on Saturday afternoon, was to commemorate the victims and took time to mourn such as observing a moment of silence before the performance.

A music festival official said, "Many people were sacrificed in an unexpected accident. Concert will proceed as planned to pay tribute to the victim, and it will have a one minute of silence before the performance."

(This article is translated from Korean to English by Jiwon Woo.)

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