--- title: Video: US Marines and Korea Army Drum Battle in Parking Lot description: III Marine Expeditionary Force Band and the Republic of Korea Army Band start drum battle in parking lot canonical: https://time.com/3510114/marines-korea-army-bands-drum-battle/ author: Olivia B. Waxman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-10-15T15:05:54.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:13:48.360Z og:title: Watch the Marines and the Korea Army Face Off in an Epic Drum Battle og:description: III Marine Expeditionary Force Band and the Republic of Korea Army Band start drum battle in parking lot og:url: https://time.com/3510114/marines-korea-army-bands-drum-battle/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch the Marines and the Korea Army Face Off in an Epic Drum Battle twitter:description: III Marine Expeditionary Force Band and the Republic of Korea Army Band start drum battle in parking lot twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Watch the Marines and the Korea Army Face Off in an Epic Drum Battle  by [Olivia B. Waxman](https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer Oct 15, 2014 3:05 PM UTC  by [Olivia B. Waxman](https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer Oct 15, 2014 3:05 PM UTC In a friendly battle of the bands, the III Marine Expeditionary Force Band and the Republic of Korea Army Band drummed up a friendly competition in a parking lot at the 2014 Gyeryong Military Culture Festival. In a clip uploaded to YouTube by [user bhijar07](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPD4Ae-Zv%5FY&feature=youtu.be), the Korean band members dance and cheer like they are in the mosh pit at a concert while the Americans are slightly more stoic. This festival is one of the many performances that the Okinawa, Japan-based [III Marine Expeditionary Force Band](http://www.iiimef.marines.mil/Band.aspx) travels to worldwide. **MORE:** [How the Star-Spangled Banner Became the National Anthem](http://time.com/3318644/star-spangled-banner/) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3510114/marines-korea-army-bands-drum-battle/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3510114/marines-korea-army-bands-drum-battle/"},"headline":"Watch the Marines and the Korea Army Face Off in an Epic Drum Battle","datePublished":"2014-10-15T15:05:54.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:13:48.360Z","description":"Drum roll, please","url":"https://time.com/3510114/marines-korea-army-bands-drum-battle/","keywords":["Newsfeed","U.S."],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Olivia B. Waxman","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3510114/marines-korea-army-bands-drum-battle/","name":"Watch the Marines and the Korea Army Face Off in an Epic Drum Battle"}}]}] ```