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Encyclopedia of Korean FOLK DRAMA 212 Yecheon Cheongdan noreum qatatss Mimed masked dance-drama from Yecheon, Gyeongsangbuk-do Province. Mime-style (Kor. U1, Chin. #€ 3, lit. non-verbal) masked dance-drama (ta/nori) handed down in Yecheon-eup, Yecheon in Gyeongsangbuk-do Province. According to an orally transmitted folk tale, Yecheon started when the young wife of an old man who lived in Jeolla-do Province ran away from home. After his wife left, the old man lay sick in bed. Heartbroken over his sick father, the old man’s son organized a troupe of entertainers (oripae) and wandered all over the country in search of his stepmother, or seomo (Kor. 41, Chin. EE). Finally, he found her in Yecheon but she refused to return home. His troupe killed her and then left. Afterwards, a disaster occurred because of her grudges. Aware of how things had happened, the county governor held a rite for her and had her stepson’s masked dance-drama performed again, which successfully got rid of the disaster. Since then, this rite for the young wife and Cheongdan noreum are said to have been performed in Yecheon every year to pray for the welfare of the county. In Yecheon Cheongdan noreum, 23 performers appear: two Buk Gwangdae (masked drummers), one Yangban and one Sadaebu (scholar-official), one Jjokbak Gwangdae (clown performing as a woman), two Juji Gwangdae (masked lion), four Jiyeon Gwangdae, one Jung Gwangdae (masked monk), one Eollebanga (servant), five mudong (child performers), and five mudongkkun (adult male carrying a child on his shoulders while the child is performing), along with several musicians. Each performer, excluding the mudong and mudongkkun, wears a mask or make-up to express the character he or she plays. Thirteen different masks are used: two Buk Gwangdae masks, one Jjokbak Gwangdae mask, two Juji Gwangdae masks, two jujipan (big fan-shaped plate), four Jiyeon Gwangdae masks, one Jung Gwangdae mask, and one Eollebanga mask. ‘The Jiyeon Gwangdae mask is made of a winnowing basket, and the jujipan consists of a wooden plate and pheasant fur. All the other masks are made of dried gourds

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