Anchor: Korea House, run by the Korea Cultural Heritage Foundation, is performing "KOREA Sim Cheong," a traditional story of a girl who sacrifices herself so that her father may regain his eyesight. The performance fuses traditional arts such as the Korean fan dance and pansori with live drawing and hologram technology. KBS checked out the performance in Seoul before the show goes abroad in December. 
Our Kim In-kyung has more.
 
Report: [Sound bite: audio footage from KOREA Sim Cheong]
 
A stormy sea unfolds on the stage with the sound of intense drumbeats in the background.
 
Sim Cheong, who throws herself into the sea to cure her blind father, returns in a big lotus blossom.
 
Performers present the story of filial piety and love by fusing traditional songs and dances with hologram images. Artists also recreate Korea's landscape in a live drawing performance.
 
Members of the audience participate by getting on stage to take part in a fan dance.
 
Foreign audiences are satisfied with the fusion performance, saying each element was unique.
 
[Sound bite: a Brazilian spectator]
"It's very difficult to say something about that because the entire show is amazing."
 
[Sound bite: an American spectator]
"I thought it was really great. Such a great story. It's very sad but a happy ending at the end."
 
The performance, which is being staged in a small 150-seat theater, drew four-thousand spectators in just two months.
 
Sim Cheong will go abroad in December to show Korea's traditional beauty and excitement to the world.
Kim In-kyung, KBS World Radio News.