Anchor: A North Korean art troupe is set to arrive in South Korea next Monday and Tuesday ahead of their performances in Gangneung and Seoul. 
Kim In-kyung has the details. 

Report: The North Korean art troupe set to perform in South Korea during the PyeongChang Olympics will arrive in the South next Monday and Tuesday. 

Unification Ministry Spokesman Baik Tae-hyun said in a news briefing on Thursday that an advance team will arrive on Monday, followed by the main group the next day. The delegation will cross the border through the Gyeongui overland route and leave on February 12th. 

The two sides had agreed last month to two performances by the 140-member Samjiyon Orchestra in the South. The troupe will perform in Gangneung, where ice events for the Olympics will be held, next Thursday and in Seoul three days later. 

Baik said the government is currently tallying the cost of the events, but added that Seoul isn't making any payments to the North for the performances. 

South Korea is banned from making bulk cash payments to the North under UN sanctions against Pyongyang’s nuclear and missile programs. 

He said the two Koreas have yet to make an agreement on the program of the performances, including whether there will be joint performances by artists from the two sides. 

During inter-Korean talks in January, the North said its programs will be comprised of Korean folk songs and masterpieces that fit the theme of unification, while South Korea conveyed that folk songs, art songs or classical music would be desirable. 

Seoul plans to distribute some one-thousand tickets for the performances to the public free of charge through an online lottery. Applications for the tickets may be made for 24 hours starting at noon Friday. Two tickets will be provided to 530 people each. The government will also invite another one-thousand people separated or displaced by the Korean War. 
Kim In-kyung, KBS World Radio News.