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K-Stage Festival to give Hong Kong a dose of South Korean culture beyond BTS, Squid Game

Starting June 25, the festival will mix new and old in stage shows designed to show a different side of South Korea’s eclectic culture

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A scene from Jump, a comedy about a family of martial arts savants. The stage show will be one of four performed at the K-Stage Festival, running at Hong Kong’s East Kowloon Cultural Centre from June 25-28. Photo: K-Stage Festival
Lachlan Wong

The K-Stage Festival, a four-day extravaganza of South Korean performing arts, will kick off at the East Kowloon Cultural Centre in Hong Kong on June 25, following its successful debut in Taiwan in 2025.

The festival will feature four stage productions: a stage adaptation of the 2011 K-drama Dream High, about six high school students who dream of being K-pop idols; Jump, a comedy about a family of martial arts savants; The Greatest Taekwondo, which blends traditional martial arts with modern performance to showcase the spectacle of South Korea’s national sport; and Inside Me, a musical about the challenges of social media.

Each day will see Dream High, Jump and The Greatest Taekwondo run back-to-back in the matinee slot, while Inside Me will run as the main evening show.

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Irene Jung, executive director of the Korean Tourism Organisation Hong Kong office and co-organiser of the event, believes the festival will show South Korean culture in a new light.

“We designed this festival to showcase Korean performing arts as a fresh, exciting reason to visit Korea again,” she says.

A scene from The Greatest Taekwondo, which will be performed at the K-Stage Festival in Hong Kong. Photo: K-Stage Festival
A scene from The Greatest Taekwondo, which will be performed at the K-Stage Festival in Hong Kong. Photo: K-Stage Festival

The festival subscribes to the motto: “Experience it in Hong Kong, and enjoy the full show in Korea.” Jung and her fellow organisers carefully selected shows that are popular and long-running in South Korea.

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