Dr. Kim's Korean music channel

 Gugak Museum offering a docent tour for froeigners. By the time of reopening the Gugak museum, the institute is trying to promote two events. First, they renovated a new exhibition of immersive contents between Korean traditional music and New technology. At Gallery 1, ther offer a video art entitled "Jongmyojeryeak, Sing for the Joseon Dynasty," and "Instruments, Draw Sounds." And at Gallery 4, they also newly introduce a program, called "Jinyeon, Meet the Court Banquets." Those are based upon the importance of the traditional music handed down upto now from Joseon period, and are thank to the technology of real-world 3D cideo and 2D graphics. The video art begins at every o'clock and 30 minutes from 10am to 17:30. The museum operating hour runs until 6pm everyday, except Mondays, and Jan. 1st. Second, Here's a good new for foreigners. The Gugak museum decided to open a docent tour program serviced in English once a week for foreigners. Those who...

 Saturday Gugak Concert is running at the National Gugak Center in Seoul. The program brings about the beauty of Korean traditional arts including instrumental music, vocal music, and dances. This is one of the representative brand concert of the National Gugak Center which deals with almost every contents of Korean genuine traditions on the stage. And the program is offere on the stage in turn without any conflict of sequence. So it's more of an assorted gift set for every domestic and foreign audiences. Since the program chages everyweek, you can always check the program through printed book or on the internet access to their homepage. In April, I got the schedule and put it on this article with a poster of the program. The performance begins at 3pm, every Saturday At Umyeondang Hall, National Gugak Center, Seoul The adimission is 20,000won/person Here's the Center's English website for more information. ↓↓ Click below ↓↓ https://www.gugak.go.kr/site/main/index001?menuid=...

Have you visited the Gugak Museum at National Gugak Center? Or Have you been to the National Gugak Center? It's located in Seochodong, Southern Seoul near Seoul Art center. Although I am posting about the all-year-round exibition about the museum, the National Gugak Center worhts visit to watch many performances about Korean genuine music. Mostly, Korean traditional performing arts contains instrumental music and vocal music as well as dance repertoires. Thus, there are always music and dance performing in theaters. There are basically three theaters which can accomodate upto 600 audiences, 300s, and 100s, plus an amphitheater running under weather conditions. If you visit the center, there's a big gree artificial grass covered on the ground, where children and anyone can walk or talk on. Right in front of the grass, there's a building called Gugak museum.  Here I happend to visit and brought a brochure about the museum, and introduce to anyone who might be interested. The ...

Can you believe it? Chat GPT produced an article about pansori and it goes like below. I quote the whole text that was generated by GPT to compare and how much GPT is creative. An article below is created by GPT.

  This morning, a news article interested me by the mention of "Good luck fish." The original name of the fish is pollack. It used to be one of the most common fish caught in the East coast of Korean peninsula until 1980s. Since every one liked this fish, there were many ways to cook it, and therefore it has a lot of derivative dishes created. The salted eggs became a great dish, called Myeongnanjeot(명란젓). Also it can be a long-term presserved egg, called Eoran(어란) after dry and sesame oil treatings. In Korea, The pollack has names according to their condition. When it's caught as a live one, its name is Saengtae(생태), while it's intentionally frozen: called Dongtae(동태). When it's simply dried, its name changed to Bugeo(북어), however she has another name called Hwangtae(황태) after repeating frozen and unfrozen states at the outdoor dry plant. In a dried condition, its name becomes even more complex. In brief, Myeongtae(명태) is the most general name for this fish. What...

Korean Traditional Music,  It's never easy to define.  First, the words of itself: Korea, tradition, music, are not easily describable.  Korea, like all other countries, we can point out its territory by geographical boundary by international law. But, culture is not as sharp as a knife. The boundary lies broader than we think. So, when we say Korean culture, the result will be somewhat different from that we had thought about Korea itself.   Tradition is hard to define as well. Some habbits or cultures had been handed down so far and made a meaningful level of heritage? That is a bit worth to be the tradition. In a day or two, or a short period of time? we are not able to call it a tradition. However, in other hands, a traditional heritage that has a loner history is not always considered "more important" or "more traditional." Some of items that we treat great is not always the longest one.   Music is not simply describable. Have you seen the news wh...

 A Pansori performance will be taken place. This program is hosted and sponsored by Crown&Haitai Confectionary group to celebrate new year of 2023. The group has sponsored many subgenres of Korean traditional music. Last Autumn, they presented a legendary music called Sujecheon at Sejong Culture Center in Seoul. This time, a large scaled spectrum of pansori will be shown on the stage at the same venue.  Here's a leaflet of the program. Dr. Kim happened to involve in the program as one of the participant to organize the historic research within limited scenes. Since I got such a news earlier than the others, I would like to inform here to let my blog readers know. However, as far as I know, the audience is only allowed by the company's invitation. Hopefully, the performance will be recorded and uploaded on the company's Youtube channel soon around February.