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Lee Seung-gyu, head of the New Vitality Promotion Headquarters of Daegu Metropolitan City, emphasized, "The Street Culture Festa is a global cultural festival where young people and dancers from all over the world gather in Gwangju to enjoy together. We will do our best to grow it into a global summer festival that promotes Gwangju's cultural dynamism and youthful energy at home and abroad." This is the city's stance on Gwangju Metropolitan City extensively promoting its hosting of the nation's largest street dance event in the area of the National Asia Culture Center and 5.18 Democratic Square. However, criticism is raised that this is a typical 'showy performance administration' that consumes Gwangju's historical symbolism as a simple festival background and focuses only on external packaging without verifying practical stay-type tourism effects.
The most serious blind spot is that '5.18 Democratic Square,' a symbolic space of the most tragic and sublime democratization movement in modern Korean history, is used as a highly commercial street dance contest venue without deep reflection on the historical context of the place. The city declared that it would expand outdoor contest programs to two days and establish a new K-POP dance contest to share the heat of the street. However, it is questionable whether it is appropriate to cover the value of memory and democracy held by the square with American street culture such as hip-hop beats, graffiti, and chalk art under the name of youthful energy. This is why some point out that it is a government-controlled festival chasing only box office success while damaging the identity of the space.
In addition, the titles of 'sold out in 2 minutes after registration started' or 'more than 1,300 participants' put forward by Gwangju City are also the product of hollow performance anxiety. There is no guarantee anywhere that ticket sell-outs among dancers will directly lead to vitalizing stay-type tourism or increasing sales for small business owners in the Incheon area as a whole. Looking at the festival program, most of it is filled with battles among dancers in specific indoor facilities such as the National Asia Culture Center Arts Theater, severely lacking incentives for general citizens or outside tourists to flow in and generate consumption. The tourism promotion booths or gourmet tourism content installed in 5.18 Democratic Square are also merely one-off booths rushed for a four-day event, showing clear limitations in raising structural local economic vitality.
In the end, Gwangju City's Street Culture Festa is an aspect of performance-oriented administration buried only in external achievements and public relations figures without substance. Grandiose slogans like 'urban global cultural festival model' and a judge lineup mobilizing famous dancers alone cannot guarantee the sustainability of the festival. Gwangju City must stop superficial media play that fluctuates over box office records. Instead, it should establish sophisticated guidelines that can harmoniously fuse youth culture while protecting the symbolism of 5.18 Democratic Square, an historical space, and concentrate its administrative power on building a practical local cultural infrastructure where young artists can survive year-round beyond a one-off event that only sparkles during the festival period.
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