Posts Tagged Korean Traditional Music

Sometime around 2010, for some reason, I began to become infatuated with gugak–Korean traditional music. Doubtless it began with visits to Seoul and its enchanting old palaces, folk festivals, and mountains. Friends I made among traditional musicians are part of it too. But gugak is an acquired taste. To many Western ears, some kinds of gugak are difficult to listen to. Somehow, for me it has an ever-deepening appeal, even though the more I delve into it, the stranger it becomes.

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