... Tuch’il Kugak yŏnyesa Korean Traditional Music Entertainment Company Sabalga Rice Bowl Song Shin Pulch’ul Wangshimni Troupe Yi Myŏnggil Kongch’ŏga Nakhwa yusu Blossoms Fall Water Flows Paennorae Boat Song shaman Yi Ŭnju aniri ch’ang singing ŏnmori p’ansori folk dramatic song ch’uimsae...

... The Deep rooted Tree UNESCO gender namdo Arirang Kanggangsullae Tondollari Buddhism Christianity record An Pich’wi Hwang Yongju Muk Kyewŏl Yi Ŭn’gwan Yi Ŭnju postcolonialism folksongs heritage intangible preservation cultural cringe Korea kugak nationalism On my first visit...

... White Tiger Ch’oe Chŏngshik Ch’oe Kyŏngshik Chosŏn kamu yŏn’guhoe Korean Research Committee for Song and Dance shijo sung poems yangban aristocracy An Pich’wi Chang Haksŏn folksong Han’guk kach’ang taegye Han’guk minyo yŏn’guhoe kasa narrative songs Kugak yŏnyesa Korean Traditional Music...

...For the last one hundred years, the dominant music culture in Korea has been Western. Nonetheless, kugak, traditional Korean music, stands for “Korea” in tourist brochures and on countless Internet sites, in historical films and TV dramas, and in the great majority of academic...