9. 'The World of Korean Traditional Music' Performance

At National Gugak(Korean Traditional Music) Center, 'The World of Korean Traditional Music' performance will be held from 27th(Tue) to 28th(Wed) at 19:30, showing the spirit of Korean traditional musical performance.
In this performance, more than 100 members of National Gugak Center's classical music band will perform Korean traditional instrumental ensemble piece 'Yeongsanhoesang', which have been handed down for more than 500 years.

8 A traditional culture event, where you can admire beautiful ancient palaces and traditional korean culture including Kyonghoeru party, Changdeok Palace moonlight walking, Deoksu Palace appreciation for the arts, will be held at the palace.

ㅇ From 28th(Wed) to 30th(Fri) at 8:00pm on Kyonghoeru in Kyongbokkung, a night time traditional culture show 'Kyonghoeru party' will be held. The 'Kyonghoeru' will represent the architectural beatifulness of Kyonghoeru with a fantastic night scene, which received good evaluation last year which was first being held. It's high quality performance combining korean traditional song, dance and instrument that made a fantastic atmosphere.

 ㅇ At 27th(Tue) 19:00, 'Changdeok Palace moodlight walking' program will be held. It's a program for ancient palace visits providing historical, cultural, scenic experience.

 ㅇ At 7:00 pm of 24th(Sat) to 25th(Sun) 'Deoksu Palace appreciation for the arts' where about 20 people including people with intangible cultural treasure will be held at Deoksugung Jeonggwan-heon.

7. 'Korean Culture & Tourism Promotion Exhibition'

Inside COEX, where Nuclear Security Summit will be held, 'Korean Culture & Tourism Promotion Exhibition' will be open for the public from 25th(Sun) to 28th(Wed). People will be able to directly experience Korean culture and see Korean relics, traditional handicrafts and art work.
ㅇ At 'Korean Culture & Tourism Promotion Exhibition', one can try Hanbok on, experience medical tourism, take a look at the virtual museum and listen to K-Pop.
ㅇ Also, 10 Korean and Japanese artists' works, which received attention through nuclear art project 'Communion', will be put on display. These includes Media(Jae-ha Ryu, Yong-baek Lee), Painting(Se-hyun Lee), Ceramics & Performance(Soo-kyung Lee), Needlework(Kyung-ah Hahm), Photo(Ju-ha Jung, Ono Tadashi, Sung-pil Han) and Objet(Kobayashi Humico, Tsubaki Noboru, Ultra Factory), covering whole branches of visual arts.

6. Event Preparations for Husbands/Wives of Leaders Who Attend Seoul Nuclear Security Summit

- Organizing high quality programs which are comprised of up-to-date classics and world-sweeping Korean Wave. Especially, Korean young artists will participate and make those program dynamic and fascinating.
- Husbands/Wives of leaders will see drawings submitted to International Children's Peace Art Festivial which commemorates Nuclear Security Summit. Also, they will watch Korean young musicians' classic concert.
- Inside Sangchoonjae, which is located inside the Blue House and shows the beauty of Korean-style house in harmony with the nature, they will be served Korean traditional food. This can be a chance to promote and globalize Korean food.
Thereafter, at the reception hall, Hanbok(Korean traditional clothes) performance and other K-Pop performances will take place in order to enhance their understanding of Korean wave, while increasing the level of closeness.

5. Airport security heightened to the highest level for the Nuclear Security Summit

With 2012 Seoul Nuclear Security Summit(26~27th) ahead, the security level of Korea's major airports will be heightened to the highest level.
On 15th, Ministry of Land, Transport and Maritime Affairs announced that for securing safety of airports and airplanes, the security levels of Incheon, Gimpo, Gimhae and Cheongju airports will be raised to 'Orange'(alert level) between 19th to 22nd, and further raised to 'Red' between 23rd to 27th.
The airport security level is classified into 5 levels such as Green→Blue→Yellow→Orange→Red.
As a result of heightened security level, the time taken for the security check will be increased because of stricted check for passengers, baggages, luggages, air cargoes, etc.
For this reason, at the major aiports, there will be additional placements of security check personnel and guides to minimize the inconvenience of the passengers.
Ministry of Land, Transport and Maritime Affairs requested for public cooperation saying, "There will be inconvenience of passengers because of stricted security check, but it is necessary measure to be taken for the international event where leaders of 57 nations(including international organizations) will participate"

4. The participating leaders of Seoul Nuclear Security Summit, 'experience the Korean Wave'(E-Daily)

Special event will be provided to the Leaders participating in Seoul Nuclear Security Summit between 26th to 27th, where they can experience Korean foods and performances.
According to the Seoul Nuclear Security Summit Preparatory Secretariat, the president Lee Myung-bak and the first lady will invite 150 people including the presidents and the first ladies of 30 nations, the representatives of international organizations and the senior entourage, and host special dinner and cultural performance.
The cultural event is prepared for the leaders and the representatives who will stay for one more day after the Summit so that they can experience Korean foods and Korean traditional performances in comfortable and relaxed atmosphere.
Especially for the dinner, a formal dinner with the specialties from all around Korea will be prepared with the theme of Spring. After the dinner, Korean traditional performance will be performed in the backyard of ancient palace providing natural setting and a cozy pavilion, so that all the presidents and the first ladies could feel that they are invited in the Korean traditional garden.
The performance will start by 'Peace Song' sung by the honorary ambassador and singer Park Jeong-hyun, and followed by Korean traditional music 'Su Je Cheon' with Korean court dance. Korean traditional wind instrument 'Dae geum' and Salpuri, mournful Korean traditional sounds 'Sinawi' and Hanryangmu, master's gayageum play, etc will also be performed.
Staffs of the preparatory secretariat said with expectation, "The presidents and the first ladies of participating nations will experience dignified essence of out traditional culture"

3. 'Nuclear Safety' agenda(Segye Times)

'Nuclear Safety', differentiated from 'Nuclear Security', is an activity to protect human race and environment from radiological hazards due to natural disasters or technical malfunction. But since the Fukushima Nuclear Accident in last March, the possibilities of threats in the nuclear facilities by terrorists were noticed, which resulted in the spread of awareness of the correlation between Nuclear Security and Safety.
The government will deal with Nuclear Safety as main agenda in this Summit. It will be dealt during the luncheon on 27th, the second day of the Summit. The authority said "The correlation of Nuclear Security and Safety will be discussed and selected as an agenda". However, the Gori Nuclear Accident and the attemp to conceal it, have ashamed the government's plan which is to set an example of nuclear-utilizing nation. An high level official said on 15th, "The Gori Nuclear Accident and the attempt to conceal it have dishonored our nation and the government's plans have reached a deadlock"