Nat l Theater to unveil free online lectures on traditional performing arts
Posted : 2021-08-04 15:05
Updated : 2021-08-04 17:54
Seen is a still image from the National Theater of Korea (NTOK) lecture series Let s Gugak on YouTube. Courtesy of NTOK
By Park Ji-won
The National Theater of Korea (NTOK) will unveil its lecture video series Let s Gugak II on YouTube in three foreign languages on Aug. 12, as part of its efforts to promote the Korean traditional performing arts to non-Koreans.
As a follow-up to the first Let s Gugak series released in January, the NTOK will release a video each Thursday for nine weeks in three different categories of traditional performing arts: samul-janggu (hourglass-shaped drum), pansori (traditional narrative vocal style) and Korean traditional dance. In each video, the members of the NTOK and experts will provide basic and practice videos of each traditional art form with English, Chinese and Japanese subtitles. The first batch of nine v
National theater unveils this year s performances to be staged in renovated theater
Posted : 2021-07-20 09:49
Up to 56 performances, including 22 new hits, to appear
By Park Ji-won
Poster for the 2021-22 season of the National Theater of Korea (NTOK) / Courtesy of NTOKThe National Theater of Korea (NTOK) is set to present up to 56 performances, including 22 new hits for the upcoming 2021-22 season from September 2021 to June 2022, in its newly renovated Haeoreum Grand Theater, which has been optimized for traditional Korean performing arts.
The new season will kick off on Sept. 1 with Sound of Millennium, by the National Orchestra of Korea, a traditional music orchestra, which will play three new songs with the 60-member National Chorus of Korea and Ahn Sook-seon, a master of pansori, a traditional narrative vocal music genre.
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Posted : 2021-01-26 09:06
Updated : 2021-01-27 10:48
Lee So-yeon as Park Nam-ok in a scene from Apres-Girl, a performance about Korea s first female film director / Courtesy of National Theater of Korea
By Kwon Mee-yoo
From past to present, many of the world s greatest film directors started as cinephiles and Park Nam-ok (1923-2017), Korea s first female film director, is no exception. Having maintained a strong interest in film from a young age, she quit Ewha Women s Professional School to write film reviews for a newspaper and worked as a scripter and assistant editor at a film company after the 1950-53 Korean War. Park was one of the few who blazed a trail for women in Korea s movie industry.