Lion dance
Lion dance was recorded in the Korean historical work "Samguk Sagi" as "'" (, the old word for lion), one of the five poems on the dances of the Silla kingdom written by Choe Chiwon. It may have been recorded as early as the King Jinheung's reign in the 6th century during which a tune titled "The Lion's Talent" was composed that could be a reference to a lion dance. Two main traditions of lion dance survive in Korea, the ', which is performed as an exorcism drama; and the "" which is performed in association with masked dramas. In many of the traditional masked dance dramas, the lion dance appears as one part of a number of acts. Examples of these dramas are "Ŭnyul t'alch'um", "Pongsan t'alch'um" (봉산탈춤), "Suyong Yayu" (수영야류), and "T'ongyong Ogwangdae" (통영오광대). There was also once a court version of the lion dance.