There's a lot to see during the Olympics Closing Ceremony, and a lot to obsess over. If you managed to drag your eyes off of Yang Tae-hwan, the 13-year-old guitarist lighting up that stage, then you ...

SEOUL, September 19, 2010 - The future of Korean traditional music was the topic of discussion here when Asia Society Korea Center hosted Dr. Jocelyn Clark for its latest monthly luncheon lecture.

I PLAY TWO STRINGED INSTRUMENTS AND. ONE DRUM. NINE YEAR OLD LILY IS PLAYING AN INSTRUMENT THAT KOREANS HAVE PLAYED SINCE THE SIXTH CENTURY SILLA PERIOD. BUSTLE. APPROXIMATELY 1500 YEARS AGO. LILY HAS ...

On April 3rd, hundreds gathered at the Korean Cultural Center in London, UK. They were there to see an exhibition titled "The Sounds of Korea Heard Through Science." While there were officials from ...

Masters of traditional Korean music will take audiences on an odyssey through the sounds of the stylistically diverse folk music known as gugak in performances March 19 and 20 at Brandeis. The ...

NEW YORK — Gugak, Korean traditional music, is an umbrella term that includes both court and folk instruments. But the two couldn’t be more different. Court music tends to be ritualistic, its ...

Yoon Jeong Heo is so active that it’s almost surprising she doesn’t single-handedly generate combustible energy during the course of one of her average working days. But there is nothing remotely ...

Tonight, the Fine Arts Center will be hosting the performers of “SamulNori: Korean Dance and Drums” in their Concert Hall at 7:30 p.m. The words “SamulNori” in Korean loosely mean “to play four things ...

UCSC music professor David Evan Jones’s piece, ” for daegum and computer sounds, is one of a series of his recent compositions that use computer processed versions of actual news broadcasts in ...

Sitting cross-legged on a black rectangular stage, Juyoung “Peter” Lim rapidly strikes a small, handheld gong, creating a high-pitched, metallic sound. Around him, several others follow his lead, ...

Korean government has announced its openness to collaborations between Korea and Nigeria music. The statement came during the opening ceremony of the ‘K-Pop Meets Korea Traditional Music’, a part of ...