Ansan Street Arts Festival

This is a festival of street performance including a variety of types of outdoor performances, mime and circus performances held in the city of Ansan in Gyeonggi-do province about a 1-hours drive from the center of the Republic of Korea's capital of Seoul. Held each year in May since 2005, the festival drew a total audience of more than 700,000 in its 2012 run. The venue for performances is the 50,000 sq. m. Ansan Culture Square in front of the city hall at the city center. From 2013, the artistic director is Choi Seok Kyu, who is also the representative of AsiaNow.