''Sandae-nori'' () is a regional variant of

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. According to some scholars, it may be the root form of many other Korean mask dance dramas today, as it was created and managed by the Sandae Dogam, a government office in charge of providing entertainment both in the capital and in important regional centers. The Sandae Dogam was disbanded in the early 1600s, leaving many performers unemployed and searching for work. It is thought that the stories of these performers became modern day plays such as '' Songpasandae-nori'' and '' Yangju Byeolsandae'' and influenced many other performance forms in Korea. Although modern Koreans tend to use the Korean term ''

talchum () is a Korean dance performed while wearing a mask, and often involves singing and dancing. Although the term is usually taken to mean all mask dance dramas by most Koreans, it is strictly speaking a regional term originally only applied to ...

'' to refer to all types of mask dance drama, ''talchum'' is properly only applied to three extant mask dance dramas from

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Sandae Noli Korean dance National Intangible Cultural Heritage of South Korea