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04 Jul 2011

Daegu Culture and Arts Center

The Daegu Culture and Arts Center was built in 1990. The main theatre with 1,078 seats serves as a stage for orchestral concerts, operas, dances, and drama performances and is equipped with a revolving stage, a lift stage, an orchestra pit, up-to-date lighting equipments and sound facilities. A small theater with seats for the audience of 316 is used for solos and dramas. The exhibition building, shaped like a hexagonal beehive, represents the harmony and assiduous creation of artists. There are also 13 galleries and garnering rooms in the building. A spacious indoor fountain pond and several resting places provide a space for the meeting and dialog between artists and the public.

Daegu City Arts Corps was established by Daegu Metro City Government in order to promote the local culture. Consisting of 7 subordinate groups and 300 members, It has staged special and ourdoor performances as well as a variety of periodical ones for its citizens. In addition, Daegu City Arts Group committed itself to satisfy the cultural demands of the citizen and promote the local cultural development by having paid over 100 visits to schools annually and having made a lot of on-the-spot performances for patients and socially-alienated people who could not have an easy access to high-level cultural events.