KCCN promotes cultural ties between Koreans, Nigerians at K-heritage festival

The Korean Cultural Centre Nigeria (KCCN) staged the 2026 K-Heritage Festival in Abuja to promote cultural relations between Nigerians and Koreans over the weekend. At the event, some Korean and Nigerian singers and dancers thrilled the audience with their amazing, ecstatic and splendid performances. Speaking at the event, Ms Yunjin Lee, KCCN Event Manager, said […]

The Korean Cultural Centre Nigeria (KCCN) staged the 2026 K-Heritage Festival in Abuja to promote cultural relations between Nigerians and Koreans over the weekend.
At the event, some Korean and Nigerian singers and dancers thrilled the audience with their amazing, ecstatic and splendid performances.
Speaking at the event, Ms Yunjin Lee, KCCN Event Manager, said the K-Heritage festival, which started in 2025 in Lagos, aimed at bringing the Korean traditional performances to Nigeria.
She said it acts as a vibrant bridge between Nigeria and Korea, bringing together traditional Korean artistry and modern entertainment such as K-pop, traditional drumming (Janggu), and Korean cuisine.
According to her, the festival has continued its mission of connecting cultures through music and dance, making audiences to look forward to captivating performances, including traditional dance and janggu drumming.
”Yesterday [Friday], we had a workshop on Korean fan dance and Korean drum ‘Janggu’, which is a Korean traditional drum.
”We are bringing traditional Korean teachers, students, KCCN K-pop dance students, vocal and dance to the stage because such helped us in one way or the other to embrace K-heritage,” she said.
She added that the 2026 K-heritage festival focused more on the performances of Korean traditional music and dance, which is the ‘fan dance’.
There were electrifying performances by Melissa Minseong Seo, Hyunjeong Park (Korean star artists), Jago students, and Victory Mbagwu.
Others were 2025 K- pop finalist singer, Amira Ademiyi, KCCN dance classes, 2025 K-pop first prize winner ‘Xtreme Movement’, Team Switch, among others.