Samul nori is a genre of traditional percussion music originating in Korea. The word samul means "four objects" and nori

means "play"

1. Kkwaenggwari (a small gong)

2. Jing (a larger gong)

3. Janggu (an hourglass-sha

ped drum)

4. Buk (a barrel drum similar to the bass dr

um) Samul nori is always performed with four traditional Korean musical

instruments

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BIMS students performing Samulnori.

‘Dongrae’ is a place name where Dongrae hakchoom was made. “Hak” means red crowned crane in Korean. According to history, there used to be many cranes living in Dongrae. People created this traditional dance, observing the graceful movements of cr

anes.

The dance spontaneously generated through years and years. Dongrae hakchoom is the only one that describes “a bird” among all Korean tr

aditional dances.

Performer wears a white dopo(Korean traditional clothes). Dopo is simple but beautiful. The clothes shows Dongrae hakchoom’s simple be

auty very well.

The gayageum or kayagum is a traditional Korean zither-like string instrument, with 12 strings, although more recently variants have been constructed with 21 or other numbers of strings. It is probably the best known traditional Korean musical instrument.