The United Nations choir aims to send peace through song between the northern and southern parts of the Korean peninsula as it will visit South Korea for the first time since its formation in 1947.
According to a report by Yonhap News, the United Nation Singers will perform two-hour shows June 4 through 14 while making stops in Panmunjom, Seoul, Busan, Cheongju and Yosu.
"Separate from the U.N. chorus, a combined performance group from South Korea, China and Japan will join the chorus's forthcoming Korean performance that is being held to pray for peace on the divided Korean Peninsula," Yonhap News reported.
Although music may be the key to reunification and peace, it can also be used as a weapon, as we've seen in recent months along the border between North and South Korea.
After North Korea claimed a succesful hydrogen bomb testing last month, the southern peninsula fought back with a mammoth speaker system blasting K-pop along 11 locations in the demilitarized zone.
The speakers are one of the most effective ways to fight North Korean propoganda as the soldiers hear news, discussions on human rights, and, of course, K-pop, and have been used several times in recent years to demoralize North Korean soldiers stationed near the border.
