Cerimonia d'apertura

An opening ceremony of the bullfighting festival in Cheongdo, southeast of Seoul, South Korea, 17 March 2010. About 130 fighting bulls from across the nation will go head-to-head in the five-day event. Korea’s traditional bullfighting is a pushing technique that requires pure strength, a heading technique meaning head-butting which can be seen quite frequently during the fight, a neck attacking technique that requires a lot of skill, a side attacking technique which aims for the stomach that could deal a death blow to the other bull, a horn-locking technique that presses down the other bull, a horn-hitting technique that violently hits and shakes the other bull’s horns, a lifting technique that locks one’s head with the counterpart in attack and, finally, a sequence hitting technique in which horn-hitting is fast followed by head-butting to end the game.
(Foto Ansa/EPA/JEON HEON-KYUN)