Updated May.28,2002 18:34 KST

Dances to Greet Opening of FIFA Meeting

Dance director Jeong Hye-jin's Yewon Corps de Dance showcased traditional dance, Tuesday, to some 2,000 people from football associations of 204 countries and territories worldwide at the opening of the FIFA General Assembly held in the Hilton Hotel. Jeong said, "We delivered the message the world becoming one in the exhilarated dance."

In the performance some 38 junior high school girl students in traditional Korean clothing created a a globe by twining fabric to five shape to the official soccer ball "Fevanova."

In the evening at Gyeongbok Palace a company of some 100 dancers will perform the fan dance and circle dances hand in hand with representatives of each nation's football association in resolution of international reconciliation through the soccer fiesta.

(Kim Dong-seop, dskim@chosun.com )