A stone haechi statue stands guard subsequent to Gwanghwamun, the primary gate to Gyeongbok Palace, throughout sundown March 12, 2022. Korea Occasions photograph by Jon Dunbar
A year-end gentle pageant will return to Gwanghwamun Sq. in central Seoul this week, lighting up the sq. at evening with media installations by means of early January, officers stated Tuesday.
Seoul Mild Gwanghwamun 2025 will run from Friday by means of Jan. 4 on the sq., that includes paintings from numerous media artists, together with Doug Aitken, winner of the Worldwide Prize on the 1999 Venice Biennale, the Seoul metropolis authorities stated.
This 12 months’s pageant will show numerous media installations throughout the sq., together with a 26-meter gentle projection of re-imagined Korean conventional buildings.
A digital stage consisting of an LED wall and flooring may also be put in simply north of the statue of King Sejong on the sq. to characteristic works from 11 artists, with one of the best work to be chosen by guests.
On Dec. 31, the media present will maintain a New Yr’s Eve countdown occasion, that includes synchronized media artwork on digital billboards of a number of buildings across the sq..
As a part of crowd security measures, the town plans to station security administration personnel across the sq. and cooperate with fireplace and police authorities in addition to close by hospitals.
It marks the fourth version of the sunshine pageant since launching in 2019.
A poster for the Seoul Mild Gwanghwamun 2025 pageant is seen on this picture supplied by the Seoul metropolitan authorities, Tuesday. The pageant will open on Dec. 12 and run by means of Jan. 4, 2026. Yonhap
