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

I was already quite familiar with the gayageum (12 string instrument) and the haegeum (2 string instrument, like a fiddle) but there are many more out there that many people are not familiar with. I ...

Võ’s instrument’s higher ... “The material for our picks and how we use them also varies, and on the Korean gayageum, the musician plays with bare fingers. They use their fingernails ...

Students showed an extreme curiosity in Korean traditional music after attending special lectures on Gayageum and Samulnori given by lecturers Kim Hyun-ji and Jeon Min-ji. Students had a pleasant time ...

Clark confesses she was then more interested in the Japanese traditional string instrument the koto. "Compared to the koto, which has a very bright sound, the gayageum sounded very quiet and small.