The name of the instrument itself, “gayageum” originates from a small state called 'Gaya', which was annexed by Silla. The gayageum is the most widely used traditional Korean musical instrument due to ...

On April 12, 40 exchange students from Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University attended a special lecture on Korean traditional music at the Korean Cultural Center in Thailand. Students showed an ...

Jocelyn Clark, an Alaska-born professor of East Asian studies at Pai Chai University in Daejeon, remembers the first time she ...

"Because of the 25-string instrument, young students don't know how to use nonghyeon properly," she said. Because of her love for Korean traditional music as well as the instrument, she went back ...