University students in Daegu participated in the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, held in England, for the purpose of informing the superiority of Korean culture and letting Dokdo be known to the world.

Ten members of the team, Gakseoli, include seven Keimyung University students: Go Soon-chul (Senior, Dept. of Advertising and Public Relations), Choi In-gi (Junior, Dept. of Advertising and Public Relations), Park Rang (Senior, Dept. of Theatre Arts), Heo Hui-yun (Senior, Dept. of Dance), Hong Eun-jong (Senior, Dept. of Dance), Jeon Young-jin (Senior, Dept. of Dance), Kim Min-joo (Junior, Dept. of Dance), one student from Dongguk University: Hwang Dong-yun (Sophomore, Dept. of Korean Music), the other one student from Daegu Art University: Kim Hui-jun (Sophomore, Dept. of Practical Music, and a music director and the professor of Taegu Science College: Yoon Jeong-in (Faculty of Broadcasting & Entertainment).

This team is supposed to participate in the Edinburgh Fringe Festival from August 11 for eight days and perform a street performance, dancecal 'Gakseoli'. Gakseoli performance, combined with Daeguem, Janggoo, aerobics, Korean dance, ballet, comedy and pantomime, delivering its own message of human emotion and harmony through the beggar's life and joys and sorrows of his life. Last year, this team participated in this festival as the only team of Asian university students and also was requested to have the invitation performance in Spain.

This team is planning to perform a guerilla show on tour, with the two paralleled performances of Gakseoli and the campaign of informing about Dokdo around five European countries, including Germany, starting from August 19 and continuing for ten days. Their performance received so much attention that they were selected to perform the invitation performance at the World Firefighters Games in Liverpool on August 25.

Go Soon-chul, the team leader said, "I feel something wanted because of the low rate of participation of university students of Asian area. Through this time’s performance, we will try to be at the head of letting Korean culture and also the Dokdo problem to the world by such a preparative work of setting up hanging banners with words of the Dokdo problem on them."

Edinburgh Fringe Festival, which already had sixty-two times of performance this year, is one of the most famous festivals joined together with many other genres of play, movie, and music and also was put on record as the biggest art festival in the world in the Guinness Book of World Records.