생소한 북한음악 한 자리에...희귀자료 공개부터 악보 재현한 공연 열려<br /><br />There may be a border separating South and North Korea, but you can still listen to traditional North Korean music in Seoul.<br />The National Gugak Center has been studying the traditional music of North Korea, and for the first time, it has revealed that work to the public.<br />Our Choi Jeong-yoon introduces us to that playlist.<br />By reading music written hundreds of years ago and listening to historical performances... you can travel back in time on the third floor of the National Gugak Center.<br />"Gong-gan E-um" or "connecting spaces" is an open archive of some 83-thousand pieces of traditional Korean music.<br />And part of that archive that's seeing a lot of attention is the previously unrevealed materials on North Korean music.<br />"The exhibition that starts off “Gong-gan E-um” is the first ever large-scale collection of North Korean music. Visitors can experience the history and characteristics of North Korea’s music along with some 5-thousand items open to the public."<br />As North Korea has used music to unify people and stir up popular feelings of passion, music has been more of a movement than art itself.<br />The reproduced stage of Chunhyangjeon, the largest opera in the North, shows how it dazzled North Koreans with its 40-meter-long real time moving stage.<br />Dance moves were notated in order to be distributed and repeated easily... to strengthen ideological bonds.<br />Its instruments also became more Westernized to cover a wider range of pitches.<br />"Research on the North's music is important in understanding the root of ethnic identity and will be an essential asset to society in the future."<br />To celebrate the opening of the museum, musicians recreated North Korean music.<br />Using Korean traditional instruments with the North's reformed ones, a song composed 70 years ago was brought to life.<br />"Playing North Korean music with the South's instruments is difficult. But by doing the impossible, we hope to make cultural exchanges and bring out the togetherness of our history."<br />Along with the other stages, a lecture series on understanding North Korean musical heritage will be held every Saturday for 10 weeks starting this week.<br />The exhibition is open to anyone and runs until December 6th.<br />Choi Jeong-yoon, Arirang News.<br />
