KyungRang Park

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Ms KyungRang Park was born in 1961 in Goseong, Kyongsangnamdo Province. She is Korea's leading dancer actively engaging in teaching and performance in Seoul and Busan.

Her maternal great-grand father had been the first important intangible cultural asset for the Goseong Ogwangdae performance. Like her great-grand father, she follows in the tradition of Youngnam dance.
 
At the age of four she became a disciple of renowned dance masters like late Chang-hoo Kim, late Yong-bae Cho, late Moo-bong Hwang, late Soo-ak Kim, Jin-hong Kim, Seong-hee Park, Ok-nam Kang, learning various traditional Korean dances and ballet. She was the principal dancer with Kyongsangnamdo Province dance company, Changwon City dance company.

Her traditional Korean dance has been widely acclaimed as masterful. She is devoted to the study, transmission and preservation of traditional Youngnam dance, performing as well as participating as a judge for various dance competitions.

 

Career

● Completed Jinjoo Gyobang Gutkeori Dance (Kyongsangnamdo Province Intangible Cultural Asset no. 21)

● Instructor of the Goseong Ogwangdae Performance (Important Intangible Cultural Asset no. 7)

● Head of Park Kyungrang Traditional Arts Group

● Representative of the Association for the Preservation of Youngnam Dance

● Teaching Korean Dance at the Culture School of the National Gugak Center

● Teaching Korean Dance at the Gimhae Arts and Ports Center

● Visiting Professor at the Sookmyung Women's University Graduate School of Traditional Arts

● Representative of the Korea Culture Institute for Youngnam Dance

Prizes

△ Grand Prix of the 18th National Contest for Traditional Arts awarded by the Ministry of Culture

△ Grand Prix of the 4th National Contest for Traditional Arts in Daegu, awarded by the Ministry of Culture

△ Grand Prix of the 44th Gaecheon Arts Festival, awarded by the Ministry of Culture

△ Grand Prix of the 21th National Competition for Traditional Korean Arts (Jeonjoo Daesaseup Competition), awarded by the Ministry of Culture 

△ First Prize of the 4th Seoul Traditional Arts Competition

△ Grand Priz of the 5th Seoul Traditional Arts Competition, awarded by the President

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