Kasa Highlights Dance, Taekwondo and 'Squid Game' at Spring Show

The Ryan Family Auditorium on Friday evening brought the Ryan Family Auditorium a lot of energy from live music to martial arts to dance to dance.

The topic of “Skuid Games” was inspired by the South Korean television show of the same name. The various musical numbers, dances and skits showed the Korean culture and attracted hundreds of spectators.

“It is a big event, you know, (a) great production,” said Weinberg Senior and KASA Co-President Esther Tang. “People come and the energy is just noticeable. It is as if I could cut it with scissors.”

From Kasa singers to the club's dance group, Kasa Nu Taekwondo, music and dance illuminated the stage throughout the show.

The headliner, Khai Dreams, closed the night by performing songs such as “Sunkissed” and “Fantasy” when a small amount gathered in front of the stage.

The co-president of Tang and Kasa, the senior of Weinberg, Janice Yim, handed over the club tour to Weinberg Juniors Caleb Shim and Yena Son for next year. The event included a raffle to win gift cards for Wee!, An Asian food delivery service.

“Kasa has this reputation to be or to be like a party organization:” Oh, we don't make a lot of cultural events or we don't make much community, “said Yim.” But I think Kasa Show is a time when we can really show that we can do so much more … I only hope that people take this focus on community and culture. “

The performances were set up with Sketch according to players 456, played by Weinberg Junior Jun Park, when he went through Kasa's version of “Squid Game”.

To weight a meal for a meal for a game with “red light, green light” in one of the classrooms of the technological institute, the action of the video sketches located the international hit series in a way that made the audience laughed while developing, while it developed.

“We say:” Oh, if you do our Kasa show, it will still be trendy “and you can climb this wave, in which it is right after the second season and shortly before season three,” said Yim.

After players caught the guards in 456 and brought to the stage, Tang and Yim expose themselves as the “behind the games” – both for “Skuid Games” swuards on stage and for planning the show months in advance.

Tang said the planning began at the end of the autumn quarter and was a long process, including logistics such as booking the Ryan Auditorium and the decision as to which services should be done. Yim said Kasa organized the rehearsals in his “Tech week” before the show and as a senior it was bitter.

“Kasa was such an integral part of my subclass years. I found community here,” said Yim. “And I think now that I am older and as president, I really want to give it back to the subclasses that are here, and really show them that they can all bring them together, even if it is through a show by dancing and singing and simply celebrating culture.”

The audience began to cheer, even before the first band began to play, urged the stage for Khai dreams. The Ryan Family Auditorium was almost full of people.

In order to build up excitement and to raise awareness of the event, Kasa organized a cultural week, including painting the rock, a Buldak dining competition and a handicraft night, according to Tang, according to Tang in honor of the day, a vacation in South Korea, “your inner child”.

Weinberg Senior and Kasa Cultural Chair Edward SEO said his goal for the cultural week was to bring Kasa members together.

“This is probably our second largest week of the year, so we have most of the KASA members for these events,” said SEO. “So I think it is always my goal to always be able to do this balance between funny activities and to learn through Korean culture and to help our members to help with each other.”

Tang shared the same feeling and added that the Kulturwoche Kasa members also helps who gradually get involved in the organization in the course of the year.

For Tang, the show celebrated not only Korean culture, but also the strength and talent of the NU Kasa family.

“(Kasa really gave me a family,” said Tang. “I wouldn't have met a lot of these people if I hadn't been in Kasa and if I hadn't become president. And I think the show is just a highlight of this community and this support.”

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