Byeongsin Chum (Disability Dancing)
Byeongsin chum is a Korean folk dance that was performed by the lower class peasants to satirize the Korean nobility (Yangban) by depicting them as the handicapped persons and sick persons such as paraplegics, midgets, hunchbacks, the deaf, the blind, lepers, as well as characters from Pansori and other Korean folklore.
Although Japan prohibited this weird dance that mocks disabled persons during the Annexation years, it revided after the independence of Korea from Japan and Koreans enjoy this bizarre dance even today for party entertainment.
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