As traveling became tough due to the pandemic, we needed to establish a strategy different from the previous tourism communication that had been used to induce foreigners to visit Korea. In addition, we aimed to develop an impactful campaign so that foreigners think of Korea as the priority to visit when covid-19 ends and travel resumes.

In a limited situation where social distancing is implemented, online content is almost the only way to deliver the charm of Korea across the world. So the main purpose of this campaign is focusing on interesting music and dance performance while the previous communication aimed at showing famous landmarks.

We used the modernly reinterpreted version of Korean traditional music “Pansori”, which was unfamiliar to foreigners, as the BGM, and sought to arouse interest through creating a scene of people, dancing in the local spots, in the form of a music video.

Instead of simply showing famous landmarks of Korea in the ad, we planned the 6 series of tourist contents that highlights characteristics of each city [Seoul, Jeonju, Busan, Mokpo, Andong, Gangneung]

It attracts attention by combing Band LEENALCHI’s music which is reinterpreted Korean traditional sound ‘Pansori’ with the breathtaking dance performance, and tried to catch the eyes by showing local place that is less familiar to foreigners.

We settled concepts for each city; Seoul, the capital city of Korea; Busan, the city of the sea; and Jeonju, a city where the tradition lives intact, and selected songs that matched the concepts to edit and create dance choreography.

As ‘Pansori’ was unfamiliar to foreigners, many foreigners showed deep interest in it, and through the music video-like dance performance directions, we were able to receive reviews as an advertisement that does not seem like an advertisement.

[Insight & Key message]

In order to create a brand new type of tourism content, we conducted a consumer trend analysis. We were able to confirm that short videos of music and dance were popular online. To deliver the Korean excitement through online contents, we selected a theme called ‘Feel the Rhythm of Korea’ and produced a music video format video on the harmony of Korean traditional sound and modern dance performance.

[Target Audience]

Age targeting (China:2040F / Japan:2130,4150F / Middle East Asia:1834 / Europe & America:2059MF), executed globally.

[Creation and distribution of assets]

As SHORT VIDEO was a hot trend like the contents on TiKTOK, we produced an interesting SHORT FILM with music and dance as subjects. We utilized online platforms (Youtube, Facebook, TTD, TOUTIAO, IQIYI, TENCENT) mostly used by the MZ generation, the main target of the travel industry, to create voluntary viral.

“Feel the Rhythm of Korea” contents were produced in the form of a music video with different concepts according to the characteristics of each city (ex. traditional city, marine city, capital city, etc.).

The band’s music, a reinterpretation of Pansori, was used as the BGM, and the dance team went around the city's tourist spots and danced to trigger the excitements of Korea. In Andong, Gangneung, and Mokpo contents, band ‘LEENALCHI’ that actually played the BGM, also appeared in the video to secure fandom.

The contents received attention by using music and dance as subjects, while considering the MZ generation, the main target of the travel market, and was executed via global online media (YouTube, Facebook, TikTok, etc.) during the on-air period [2020.08.03 ~ 2020.12.06]

[Reach]

- Views: 566,239,423

- Organic Views: 25,842,854

[Engagement]

- Clicks: 23,914,394

- Reviews: 602,434

[Impact]

- 16 times reported on the Domestic broadcast, 11 articles in the Newspaper, and more than 330 reported Online

- The contents topped the list of YouTube trending video.

- Cover dance contents and parody videos have been uploaded from all around the world