Day 1: International Day of the African Child Celebration at KCCN. The Korean Cultural Centre Nigeria held a special event to mark the International day of the African Child on 13th & 14th June 2024. Students from public schools and schools for the visually impaired, hearing impaired, and autism spectrum disorder were invited on the first day 13th June. Visually impaired children touched traditional Korean hanbok and masks and listened to K-pop songs, while hearing-impaired children and children with autism spectrum disorder experienced a variety of Korean culture, such as coloring traditional masks and drawing. In particular, it was meaningful in that it provided opportunities to experience Korean culture in a variety of ways suitable to them. Photos:

On 25th May, KCCN held the 2024 K-Pop Festival in Lagos for the second time in a row. The festival, which featured a dance and singing competition, began with an online preliminary round in April. 10 dance teams and 10 singing contestants were selected across the competitive pool of submissions received to participate in the finale. The K-Pop/K-Culture community in Lagos was thrilled by the amazing performances from both categories including the special performances by The Royals (Winners of the 2023 K-Festival Dance Competition) as well as the performances of the K-pop Dance and vocal Academy teachers, Jang Eun Jae and Seo Ye Na. The audience sang along and cheered every performance all the way until the winners were announced. Dance Competition Winners 1st Prize – X-Mob 2nd Prize – FemmeForce 3rd Prize – B-Stars   Singing Competition Winners 1st Prize – Victory Mbagwu 2nd Prize – Mayowa Miller 3rd Prize - MacWhitney Myles-Iranyohe   Popularity Prize Winner FemmeForce 𝘊𝘰𝘯𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘶𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘸𝘪𝘯𝘯𝘦𝘳𝘴, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘒-𝘗𝘰𝘱 𝘢𝘶𝘥𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦, 𝘴𝘦𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘢𝘨𝘢𝘪𝘯 𝘯𝘦𝘹𝘵 𝘺𝘦𝘢𝘳! Photos:

On Saturday, 4th May 2024, the Korean Cultural Centre Nigeria held a K-pop concert in collaboration with Jumparewa at Truck Central Abuja. The event which was held as a commemoration of the World Dance Day celebrated on April 29th yearly was also targeted at uniting previous K-pop dance competition winners & finalists as well as K-pop dance & vocal academy graduates of the Korean Cultural Centre Nigeria. In attendance were over 250 guests including, 10 journalists, 34 dancers and 12 performing teams. Some of the teams in attendance were Idez – Winners of the 2013 K-pop competition, Elevatorz ng – winners of the 2011/2012 K-pop competition, TSOD – winners of the 2015 K-pop competition and Northsidekingz – winners of the 2018 K-pop competition among others. The event began with an electrifying K-pop song mix performance by Jumparewa and Northsidekingz to set the overall mood of the event. Other groups danced in succession, thrilling the crowd with unique K-pop beats and sounds. The icing on the cake was also the free food and drinks ticket shared to those who arrived the venue early. Through the provision of the tickets, the audiences were able to visit any of the food trucks in the arena to order their choice of food and drinks within the price limit of the meal tickets. Photos:

On 29th & 30th April KCCNigeria held a two-day cooking class with sixteen (16) student chefs of Red Dish Culinary School to spread the awareness of Korean dishes and cooking methods. The dishes taught were Bibimbap (mixed rice with meat and assorted vegetables) and Gochujang Jjigae (Korean pepper paste soup). At the end of the cooking class, the students were gifted Gochujang and seaweed to enable them practice at home. Photos:

The Korean Cultural Centre celebrated "World Book Day" on the 23rd of April 2024 with 60 students of 6 public schools in Abuja. This event also doubled as the Korean Culture day event in April. The participating schools include; LEA Primary School Ketti, LEA Primary School Nomadic, LEA Primary School Gosa Sarki, LEA Primary School Wuse Zone 3, Greater Seeds Richmons Academy and Lea Primary School Sauka. The event was designed to introduce Korean literature to Nigerian students and to reignite the love for reading among children within the age range of 5 to 13 years old. During the event, the students had two book reading sessions: ‘Storytelling by Papa Saltang’ (a created character for the event acted by a Librarian) and for the second session, the students read a book with their teachers. After the two reading sessions, students were given a task to write out and do a presentation on what they learned in the group reading they had with their teachers. The books read was a contemporary Korean story book ‘Magic Candies' by Baek Haena and 6 folktales which include; The Sun and the moon, Greedy Granny, Heungbu and Nolbu, You should say Haneul-Cheon!, The Loyal Dog and, The Merchant and the Charcoal Dealer. Photos: