By Seo Dong-shin
Staff Reporter
The Seoul Fringe Festival (SFF), which began as the Indie Festival, celebrates its 10th anniversary this year. The festival has served as a great outlet for up and coming artists to tout their talent. Performed in and around Daehangno, the nation's theater mecca, in the late 1990s the event then moved near Hongik University in 2001.
It has been a few years since commercialization and pop culture, pandering to the taste of teenage consumers, reared its head in what was once underground culture mecca. But the aim of SFF is to prove that there are still people who have not given up on their experimental mindset of searching for alternatives.
Scheduled from Aug. 14 to Sept. 1, the festival offers diverse programs under several categories, such as music festival, visual arts festival, performing arts festival, as well as street festival.
Its Aug. 14 opening will bring performances from all different genres together. Mime artists, ska music band, and indie dancers will be joined by Singapore band Observatory as well as DJ Guru from South Korea and Snoblind from Hong Kong.