An art performance at the Việt Nam-Korea Culture Exchange Festival at Đà Nẵng City's East Sea Park. The city will host the annual festival with different programmes from August 16-18. — Photo courtesy of Đà Nẵng City's Foreign Affairs Department

ĐÀ NẴNG — A series of art performances, exhibitions, culture performances and trade and tourism promotions are coming to the central city, part of a Việt Nam-Korea Culture Exchange Festival.

The events will be held at Đà Nẵng's Biển Đông (East Sea) Park on August 16-18.

The city’s Deparment of Foreign Affairs said art troupes from the central city and South Korea will be on stage at the opening ceremony at 8pm on August 16, while students from Keimyung University will demonstrate a performance of the Korean traditional martial art of Taekwondo.

The Honam Women’s Nongak troupe – Korea’s latest UNESCO intangible cultural heritage – will be playing a traditional instrument and performing traditional Korean arts on the opening night.

Earlier, an exhibition and 60 pavilions will open at the park for visitors and local residents to experience various Korean cultural activities including a Korean food contest, Hanbok and Vietnamese long dress trails, folk games, a Taekwondo experience, a variety of spaces showcasing Việt Nam and Korea talent and a performance of a K-Pop random dance.

Promotion events for trade, export, education and tourism will be held by companies from Đà Nẵng, Gyeongsangbuk, Gangwon, Uijeongbu from Korea, and Pax Ind Company in digital fine arts, exhibition and tourism exchange.

Korean taekwondo performers join a demonstration event at the Việt Nam-Korea Culture Exchange Festival. — Photo courtesy of Đà Nẵng City's Foreign Affairs Department

A conference on potential co-operation and development in ICT between Korea and Việt Nam will also be included in the programme.

A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on fishery development will be signed by the city’s fishery association and Jeju fishery trade co-operative during the festival, the department said.

Uiwang City, Gyeonggi, South Korea and the city's Hải Châu District inked a MoU on co-operation and friendship last year.

Six universities from Korea also signed agreements with Đà Nẵng’s Đông Á University, while five cities – Changwon, Daegu, Hwaseong, Seoul and Jeju – officially signed friendship ties with Đà Nẵng.

The city's tourism department hosted a South Korean tourist promotion programme ‘Enjoy Đà Nẵng Again’ to encourage even more visitors from South Korea to visit from July 15 to the end of 2024.

It said 822,000 Korean tourists had booked a room in Đà Nẵng in the first half this year, accounting for 41 per cent of all the international visitors to the city.

Hana Tour, a South Korean travel agency will host a golf tournament as a new service to attract Korean tourists to the pristine beaches and ocean-front golf courses of Đà Nẵng.

The Shilla Hotels & Resorts – a South Korean invested resort – was one of the first beach-front hotels between Đà Nẵng and Hội An.

Korean airlines including Asiana Airlines, Jeju Air, Jin Air, Air Busan, Air Seoul and T'way Air resumed their flights from Busan, Seoul, Deagu and Cheong Ju to Đà Nẵng last year. — VNS