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 dances of Hwanghae Province in present-day North Korea. Dances from the Seoul or Gyeonggi province region are known as sandae noli, whereas dances from the southern coast are known as yayu (), which means "field play", or , which means "dance of five gods". However, is nowadays accepted as a general term for mask dance drama.