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‘Shen Yun Is the Torch That Brings Peace to People’: Korean Professor

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‘Shen Yun Is the Torch That Brings Peace to People’: Korean Professor
Mr. Im Sun-jun, a professor at Chonnam National University, attends Shen Yun Performing Arts at the National Theater of Korea in Seoul, South Korea, on Feb. 17, 2023. Kim Guk-hwan/The Epoch Times

SEOUL, South Korea—Including university professors and a choir president, several Korean thought and culture leaders said Shen Yun Performing Arts delivers the information from heaven, which purified their souls, after attending the performance at the National Theater of Korea in Seoul on Feb. 17.

“Shen Yun is the torch that brings peace to people. It’s a performance from heaven. I seem to be watching angels descending from heaven. It’s majestic! It’s amazing!” said Mr. Im Sun-jun, a professor at Chonnam National University.

Mr. Im hoped everybody in the world could attend Shen Yun.
“Our world has war and disasters. People are suffering,” he said. “Shen Yun can be the torch to lead our world to peace.”

Mr. Im said he felt a strong energy and obtained hope from Shen Yun, and his heart was touched and cleaned by the show.

Shen Yun doesn’t need any language. It only used the dance movements and conveyed the message from heaven to earth, and then influenced our hearts,” he said. “I felt the truthfulness, compassion, and tolerance.”

Mr. Im then explained that the compassion he felt meant a person needed to be kind, as well as be able to consider others first before taking actions.

“Shen Yun gave me these values. This show is so pure,” he said.  “The performance uses gorgeous costumes and elegant and graceful dance movements, calming us down and bringing us peaceful hearts.”

Mr. Im said Shen Yun could touch his heart deeply.

“The dynamic backdrop and dancers interacted and coordinated perfectly. The dancers’ movements are so smoothly and vivid. All these things work together present us this enchantment,” he said. “It’s astonishing! I was very touched.”

“The live orchestra is very unique. It has Eastern and Western instruments. The music is very pleasant,” he said.

Mr. Im appreciated Shen Yun inspiring him. “This is a real amazing spectacular!”
New York-based Shen Yun is the world’s top classical Chinese dance company, and has a mission to show the beauty and goodness of “China before communism.” For 5,000 years China’s civilization was built on values and virtues from the spiritual teachings of Buddhism, Taoism, and Confucianism.

Glimpse of Salvation

Mr. Choi Young-hoon is the president of the Rainbow Choir and was the chief editor of the major Korean newspaper Dong-A Ilbo. He said he was excited to attend Shen Yun.

“I enjoyed it very, very much. In particular, the performance perfectly integrated the traditional music, classical dance, and the high-tech dynamic backdrop. I was fascinated by it,” he said with a big smile.

Mr. Choi thanked Shen Yun for presenting the novel, patented backdrop to audiences. “That is amazing. I was very impressed by the artistic form that the dynamic backdrop presented,” he said.

He explained that the backdrop is like a 3-D movie that extended the stage, told the stories, and helped theatergoers to understand the dance. Frequently, the dancers on the stage entered the backdrop and they came back after a while, or they wrote something on it, he described.

Mr. Choi said the first program and the program right after the intermission were very meaningful to him.

“I received the message from the programs that the Divine Being is coming to save the world,” he said. “I saw a program that presented the land of China which became an ocean of bitterness. Then, Buddha came to offer salvation.”

Mr. Choi believed that the Divine Being would save all good people on earth.

Mr. Choi Young-hoon, the president of the Rainbow Choir and former chief editor of Dong-A Ilbo, attends Shen Yun Performing Arts at the National Theater of Korea in Seoul, South Korea, on Feb. 17, 2023. (Kim Guk-hwan/The Epoch Times)
Mr. Choi Young-hoon, the president of the Rainbow Choir and former chief editor of Dong-A Ilbo, attends Shen Yun Performing Arts at the National Theater of Korea in Seoul, South Korea, on Feb. 17, 2023. Kim Guk-hwan/The Epoch Times
Each Shen Yun performance consists of nearly 20 vignettes, presented through highly-expressive art forms such as classical Chinese dance, original orchestral music performed live, soloists who sing in the bel canto tradition, animated digital backdrops, and more.

‘Purified Our Souls’

Professor Kim Yong-ki is the CEO of the New Millennium Hall, KonKuk University and also teaches in the university. He said: “The performance is excellent! It’s really majestic!”

He then talked about how wonderful the dances, music, and overall design was.

“Attending this show purified our souls. It cleaned our eyes and minds. I was like being charged with the energy,” Mr. Kim said. “This is a formidable performance. The perfect coordination of everything presented a rich sprit and meaningful content. It’s fantastic!”
Reporting by Epoch Times Staff in Seoul, South Korea.
The Epoch Times is a proud sponsor of Shen Yun Performing Arts. We have covered audience reactions since Shen Yun’s inception in 2006.
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