Today, folklore is the most important performance of local community festivals, and is valued as an useful element of being adapted to make a festival. But we don't have found an article that studied the method to be admitted and changed in the process of making and creating a festival. In this situation, I will examine the method that folklore has been admitted and changed in the process of being created and being handed down by the local community. In this article, I studied Andong Mask Dance Festival which was first open in 1997, when Making-Festival spread all over the country as the vogue, and has been handed down for 11 years. As a result of my study I found the facts as follows. The transforming methods of folklore when it was admitted in a festival are the selection, focusing and making folklores hierarchy; the distortion of text by committee's arbitrary edition; releasing the distorted text on the stage and making its spectacularity; laying folklore on the showcase; the change of producers/consumers' perception by releasing the distorted text on the stage; making its spectacularity, losing of folklore's aura; the reification of folklore as it does in the market. These methods is the mechanism that has transformed the folklores admitted in a festival. I think that these aspects not only appear in a festival, but also in the most of local community festivals which have adapted folklore as an important element of a festival. I will verify and study deeply these aspects and matters by researching much more local community festivals.

Today, folklore is the most important performance of local community festivals, and is valued as an useful element of being adapted to make a festival. But we don't have found an article that studied the method to be admitted and changed in the process of making and creating a festival. In this situation, I will examine the method that folklore has been admitted and changed in the process of being created and being handed down by the local community. In this article, I studied Andong Mask Dance Festival which was first open in 1997, when Making-Festival spread all over the country as the vogue, and has been handed down for 11 years. As a result of my study I found the facts as follows. The transforming methods of folklore when it was admitted in a festival are the selection, focusing and making folklores hierarchy; the distortion of text by committee's arbitrary edition; releasing the distorted text on the stage and making its spectacularity; laying folklore on the showcase; the change of producers/consumers' perception by releasing the distorted text on the stage; making its spectacularity, losing of folklore's aura; the reification of folklore as it does in the market. These methods is the mechanism that has transformed the folklores admitted in a festival. I think that these aspects not only appear in a festival, but also in the most of local community festivals which have adapted folklore as an important element of a festival. I will verify and study deeply these aspects and matters by researching much more local community festivals.

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local community festival, mask dance festival, transformation of folklore. making folklore hierarchy, staging, spectacularizing, merchandising, hybridity, reification.