The Korea Times
Seoul’s Sejong Center for the Performing Arts is inviting foreign visitors past the velvet rope and into spaces usually reserved for artists and staff, turning one of the city’s most imposing cultural landmarks into a site for intimate experience. On Thursday, some 20 students from Yonsei University’s Korean Language Institute were invited for an early look before the tour officially begins next month. The participants tiptoed through staff-only corridors, quietly gasped as backstage doors opened onto the Grand Theater and snapped photos of a stage set for Verdi’s opera “Nabucco,” which was scheduled to open that evening. “The area we are in now, together with the passageways we've just been through, are spaces reserved exclusively for performers and staff and are not accessible to the general audience,” tour guide Yoo Jung-a told the group in English. When the group stood facing rows of over 3,000 red seats in the Sejong Grand Theater, they fell briefly silent before raising their phones to take photos and record videos of the scene. "Let’s think for a moment about the
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