The music of South Korea has evolved over the course of the decades since the end of the Korean War,and has its roots in the music of the Korean people,who have inhabited the Korean peninsula for over a millennium. Contemporary South Korean music can be divided into three different main categories:Traditional Korean folk music,popular music,or K-pop,and Western-influenced non-popular music.
Pansori is a Korean genre of musical storytelling performed by a singer and a drummer.
Chunhyang is a Korean Pansori film directed by Im Kwon-taek,with a screenplay by Kang Hye-yeon and Kim Myung-gon. Distributed by CJ Entertainment,the film was released on January 29,2000 in South Korea. Lee Hyo-jeong plays Chunhyang and Cho Seung-woo plays Mongryong.
Heungseon Daewongun,also known as the Daewongun,Guktaegong or formally Internal King Heungseon Heonui and also known to contemporary western diplomats as Prince Gung,was the title of Yi Ha-eung,the regent of Joseon during the minority of Emperor Gojong in the 1860s and until his death a key political figure of late Joseon Korea.
Oh Feel Young is a 2004 South Korean television series starring Ahn Jae-wook,Chae Rim,Ryu Jin and Park Sun-young. It aired on KBS2 from September 13 to November 2,2004 on Mondays and Tuesdays at 21:55 for 16 episodes.
Chunhyangga is the most famous pansori in Korea,having had considerable popularity for the past century. Chunhyangga is considered to be the best pansori musically,and as a work of literature and play.
Jeokbyeokga is one of the five surviving stories of the Korean pansori storytelling tradition. The other stories are Simcheongga,Heungbuga,Chunhyangga and Sugungga. It is also known as Hwaryongdo. This story is a retelling of the Chinese historical legend of the Battle of Red Cliffs. Jeokbyeokga is a heroic story. Therefore,the expressions are grand,sublime,and strong. Accordingly,female singers rarely sing it. Jeokbyeokga has many scenes depicting conflict between the king,feudal lords and a commander,so the singer must have the capability of making grand vocalizations. A singer with an intense voice is aptly suited for Jeokbyeokga. Jeokbyeokga is considered to be the most difficult pansori,even though it is short.
Empress Myeongseong is a 2001 and 2002 South Korean television series that aired on KBS2.
Bae Su-ji,better known as Bae Suzy,is a South Korean singer,actress and model. She was a member of the girl group Miss A under JYP Entertainment. She made her debut as an actress with television series Dream High (2011) and has gone on to appear in series such as Gu Family Book (2013),Uncontrollably Fond (2016),While You Were Sleeping (2017),Vagabond (2019),Start-Up (2020),and Anna (2022). She made her film debut in Architecture 101 (2012). Since her successful film debut,she has been hailed as "The Nation's First Love" in her home country.
Oh Jeong-suk was an ingan-munhwage for pansori. She was designated as an ingan-munhwage 1 May 1991. She specialized in Chunhyangga,which is the 5th Important Intangible Cultural Property of Korea.
Kim So-hee was an established South Korean traditional singer,designated officially as a human cultural asset in the heritage preservation programme for the folk opera genre pansori,which is fifth on the list of Important Intangible Cultural Properties of Korea. Her real name was Kim Sun-ok (김순옥). She specialized in Chunhyangga. She used Manjeong as a pseudonym,given by a physiognomist;it means to become a master of gugak.
Shin Jae-hyo was a theoretician and adapter of pansori in the late Joseon Dynasty. While not a famous singer of pansori,he contributed much to its development. He organized and recorded the six stories of pansori:Chunhyangga,Simcheongga,Jeokbyeokga,Heungbuga,Sugungga,and Byunggang Saega. Before this,they had only been transmitted orally. He also systematized a theory of pansori.
Blooded Palace:The War of Flowers is a 2013 South Korean historical television series starring Kim Hyun-joo,Lee Deok-hwa,Song Seon-mi,Jung Sung-mo,Jung Sung-woon,Kim Joo-young,Go Won-hee,and Jun Tae-soo. It aired on jTBC from March 23 to September 8,2013 on Saturdays and Sundays at 20:45 (KST) time slot for 50 episodes.
Events from the year 1994 in South Korea.
Shin Bong-sun is a South Korean comedienne and entertainer. She took a five-year hiatus from comedy from 2010 to 2015,which ended when she joined Comedy Big League. She is currently a member of the South Korean girl group Celeb Five.
Song So-hee,is a South Korean singer who specializes in traditional Korean music known as gugak. She rose to fame after winning the KBS National Singing Contest in 2008 at the age of 11,earning her a reputation as a gugak prodigy. The South Korean government honored Song with the title,"Best Korean of the Year," in 2010.
The Sound of a Flower is 2015 South Korean period drama film based on the life of Jin Chae-seon,who became Joseon's first female pansori singer in 1867. Jin risks her life by cross-dressing as a man,at a time when women were forbidden to sing in public or perform on stage. The film focuses on the relationship between Jin and her pansori teacher,Shin Jae-hyo. The Korean title,Dorihwaga,is a song written by Shin about his protégée after she became a court singer.
Uncontrollably Fond is a South Korean television series starring Kim Woo-bin and Bae Suzy. It aired from July 6 to September 8,2016 on KBS2's Wednesdays and Thursdays at 21:55 (KST) time slot.
Man to Man (Korean: 맨투맨) is a 2017 South Korean television series starring Park Hae-jin,Park Sung-woong,Kim Min-jung,Chae Jung-an,and Yeon Jung-hoon.
Start-Up is a South Korean television series starring Bae Suzy,Nam Joo-hyuk,Kim Seon-ho and Kang Han-na. The series revolves around a woman who has dreams of becoming an entrepreneur like Steve Jobs,and her love triangle between a man who is secretly her first love and another man who is pretending to be her first love. It aired on tvN from October 17 to December 6,2020,every Saturday and Sunday at 21:00 (KST). It is available for streaming on Netflix.
