The performance market, which had been frozen by the corona virus, is heating up these days.



Musical is the number one contributor, shall we see this work that fills the 3,000-seat grand theater every day?



The background is 17th century England, a man with a strangely deformed face for the fun of aristocrats.



It looks like a foreign work, but it's not.



It is a Korean creative musical.



A 'creative musical' refers to a musical made by a Korean production company and owning the copyright.



It is a contrasting concept to 'licensed musical', which is performed in Korean by purchasing the copyright for a foreign work.



Mata Hari, Ben-Hur, Frankenstein, Excalibur, Dorian Gray are all creative musicals.



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Production companies that have grown into licensed musicals have started producing large-scale creative musicals that do not require overseas royalties since the 2010s, and the number of such works has increased.



Foreign creatives such as Jekyll and Hyde composer Frank Wildhorn often participate in these musicals.



Recently, films with foreign directors and Korean actors have been released, and the nationality of films has become a hot topic.



Recently, a Korean creative musical team received a warm response at a famous Polish art festival.



This is Marie Curie, who won the Grand Prize at the Korea Musical Awards last year.



In addition to this, the lives of foreign artists such as Van Gogh, Beethoven, Nijinsky, and Frida are a staple in small theater creative musicals.



But here I am curious.



It's a Korean creative musical, so why do you keep talking about foreign countries?



As licensed musicals with colorful stages, costumes, and exotic atmospheres are gaining popularity, creative musicals are created in a similar way.



The characteristics of the musical genre with a lot of dance, song and fantasy elements also come into play.



[Park Byeong-seong / Musical Critic: (Musical) It is a genre that is difficult to go into realistic detail like a play or a movie, so it is easy to convey the message that the writers want to convey...

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So it draws on the dramatic life of an artist, or creates a fictional foreign character, such as a 19th-century British female writer or an actress who served as a dictator's back in South America.



There are many good works and they are exported abroad, but it is a problem that musicals with a similar atmosphere continue to pour out when a certain type of work becomes popular.



There are also creative musicals that tell Korean stories.



'Laundry', which has been performed since its premiere in 2005, warmly portrays the lives of small citizens on the outskirts of Seoul, is representative.



'Laundry' was also exported to China and Japan, but it is said that there are many audiences who can relate to the story closely related to life even if it is not flashy.



Creative musicals are sometimes made into movies or dramas, but even in this case, Korean material is much more advantageous.



This year, the musical market is expected to go beyond the recovery of the pre-Corona state and even reach the highest sales forecast.



This is why we are waiting for works that tell our story here.



(Planned: Jo Ji-hyun, Composition: Shin Hee-suk, Video coverage: Park Jin-ho, Park Hyeon-cheol, Video editing: Kim Jun-hee, CG: Kim Jong-un, Video: HC Watermelon, Venue: KOTE, VJ: Oh Se-gwan)