Seoul Arts Center (Yesul Ui Jeondang), South Korea
The Seoul Arts Center is the representative art complex of Korea. It is comprised of the Opera House, Concert Hall, Art Gallery, Calligraphy Museum, Art Material Hall, and an outdoor stage.
Seoul Arts Center: 2406, Nambusunhwan-ro, Seocho-gu, Seoul, South Korea
The opera house
In front of the opera house is the Calligraphy Museum, Korea National University of Arts, and the concert hall.
The concert hall.
Far away adjacent to Seoul Art Center is National Gugak Center, where traditional Korean music is performed.
In front of the concert hall is the museum.
Next to the museum is a restaurant with a coffee shop.
Inside the concert hall.
I came here for “11:00 o’clock Concert.” It was playing various symphonic music.
After the concert.
Walking toward the clock on the left, there is a stairs. I walked down …
Then walking to the left side of the opera house, there is the Hangaram museum.
It had three exhibitions. I went to all three, but one was not allowed for photo taking, so only two exhibitions are shown here.
The first is on Henri Matisse’s art.
His art is more about paper cutting than drawing
Commercialization of his art
Out from Matisse and into the Getty Images exhibition. Getty Images collects photos: they buy and sell photo images. They have a massive amount of pictures with many historically important images.
On a different day, I came back to the concert hall for another performance. These photos are taken with my smartphone.
The restaurant next to the museum.
Walking to Gugak Center, which is located adjacent to the Music Center.
Panoramic view of Gugak Center, left to right.
The center building again
The building on the right is the Museum of Gugak (Korean traditional music).
Inside, the museum shows many Korean traditional musical instruments.
Traditional music score used in Joseon period.
Traditional dance notation
A music score of one of the traditional music instruments.
Archive for traditional music
In 1928, Victor Records produced 13 albums for 26 traditional Korean music.
Actual instruments used by famous Korean traditional artists.
