Harim X Guieim’s Meon Arirang Part II: Date, Venue, and What to Know for Yeowoorak Festival

Harim X Guieim’s <Meon Arirang, Part II : Reached Gaze, Drawn Gaze> is scheduled for July 15, 2026, at 7:30 p.m. at Daloreum Theater, National Theater of Korea, as part of the 2026 Yeowoorak Festival. The performance is a 70-minute concert-style music-theater work centered on loss, homecoming, and the power of song through the story of a young man caught in war 100 years ago.¹

For readers planning around the Yeowoorak Festival, this is one of the more narrative-focused programs in the lineup: it connects singer-songwriter Harim with the traditional music-based group Guieim, continuing the <Meon Arirang> project that Harim presented at Yeowoorak in 2018.²

Harim X Guieim’s Meon Arirang Part II at a Glance

The key practical point is simple: this is a single listed performance on July 15, not a multi-day run in the provided material. The National Theater of Korea performance notice identifies the venue as Daloreum Theater and gives the running time as 70 minutes, which makes it easier to plan arrival, transportation, and any post-show schedule.¹

The broader festival runs from July 3 to July 25, 2026, across Daloreum Theater and Haneul Theater. The official festival information lists 12 performances, including programs by Lee Han-chul, Kang San-e X Jung Bo-kwon, Sunwoo Jung-a X Chae Ji-hye, and Lip J X Yoo Hee X Park Dong-seok.³

What the Performance Is About

<Meon Arirang, Part II : Reached Gaze, Drawn Gaze> is described by the National Theater of Korea as a music-theater stage created by Harim and Guieim around the story of a young man in war a century ago. The work deals with loss, return, and the force of song, using a traditional foundation while moving through a theatrical concert format.¹

Korea Economic Daily reported that the story follows a soldier taken to a foreign battlefield 100 years ago and unfolds in music-theater form. In a press-conference quote included in that report, Harim framed the central question as: “What story might the Arirang sung 100 years ago tell us?”⁵

That question is useful for understanding the title. “Meon Arirang” can be read as a distant Arirang, while the subtitle’s two images, “Reached Gaze” and “Drawn Gaze,” suggest looking across time, distance, and memory. The provided sources do not give a tracklist or detailed scene order, so the most reliable expectation is a compact, story-led concert rather than a conventional recital or a purely spoken theater piece.

Bridge Economy also notes that the 2026 work follows Harim’s earlier <Meon Arirang> project from the 2018 Yeowoorak Festival, now developed with Guieim, a group grounded in traditional music.² That continuity matters for returning festivalgoers, but new audiences do not need prior knowledge of the 2018 project to understand the available performance premise.

How It Fits the 2026 Yeowoorak Festival

The 2026 Yeowoorak Festival is organized around meetings between traditional music and other forms, including popular music, rock, blues, and street dance. Korea Economic Daily described the program as 12 stages built on traditional music while crossing into these other genres.⁵

Korea Ilbo reported that Lee Han-chul is the festival’s first popular musician to serve as artistic director, while Yu Tae-pyungyang, formerly of the National Changgeuk Company of Korea, serves as music director. In the same coverage, Yu described the festival’s spirit with the phrase “a meeting of intense primary colors.”⁶

Within that frame, Harim X Guieim’s program is not simply a guest concert placed inside a festival calendar. It is one of the collaboration stages that expresses the festival’s core idea: traditional sound meeting another musical and theatrical language. Korea Economic Daily also reported that, through distribution cooperation with the Asia Culture Center Foundation, the work is expected to be presented at the 2026 ACC X Music Festival as well.⁵

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