Cultural Sites and Music

안녕하세요! Hello and welcome back to another week of virtual travel to South Korea! This week’s post invites you to listen to some traditional Korean music while you go on a virtual tour of some of the country’s cultural sites.

Korean Music Playlist

Listen to this album of instrumental Korean music by Seoul Music Ensemble as you explore the rest of the resources in this blog post for a sensory experience! You can also try out an assortment of Korean pop music (K-pop) on Hoopla, one of The Library’s digital resources accessible here. If you have any song recommendations, please share them in the comments below!

Virtual Tours

Have you heard of Google Arts & Culture? It’s an online platform that features images, collections, and virtual tours of museums and other cultural places around the world! Here are just a few of the places in South Korea that you can explore.

1. Take a virtual tour of a number of heritage and cultural sites

2. Learn more about Korean heritage, including the history, traditions, fashion, and art

3. Korean museums have a number of online exhibits available with English text. Here are some stand-out exhibits:

   1. Art on the Street: Graffiti Art from Gyeonggi Musuem of Modern Art

   2. The Colors in Korean Life and Culture from the National Folk Museum of Korea

   3. Animals and Plants in Korean Traditional Paintings II: Cats and Sparrows from the National Museum of Korea

Let us know what virtual tour you went on or what collection you explored in the comments below. Stop by next week to learn how to play a popular Korean game, cook up a simple Korean dish, and get ideas for your next movie night!