Event Details5:45 PM Reception6:30 PM Program
You may be familiar with Korean popular music, or K-Pop, which has taken the world by storm. How has Korean music evolved over time and how does current popular music pay homage to traditional themes?
Join the World Affairs Council, in partnership with the Korea Foundation, for a beautiful evening at the Dallas Arboretum where these traditional Korean music themes will be explored. The night will include a reception, live performance by Jeongin Lee of UT Austin, and conversation on the legacy of Korean music. Korean music theory and performance specialist Dr. Hilary Finchum-Sung will highlight the significance of musical tradition in Asian studies. We hope you will be a part of this immersive experience!
About Hilary Finchum-Sung Dr. Hilary Finchum-Sung is the executive director of Association for Asian Studies, where she has been a member for about 20 years. She served as the first non-Korean faculty member in the Seoul National University’s department of Korean Music in the Republic of Korea where she spent the last decade. Dr. Finchum-Sung’s work has also been published in many academic journals, including Ethnomusicology,), Seoul Journal of Korean Studies, and Acta Koreana. She has mastered fluency in not only Korean language, but also Korean music, particularly as a performer on the two-string fiddle, haegeum. Dr. Finchum-Sung is a board member of the Korean Ministry of Foreign Affairs. She has a Ph.D. in Ethnomusicology from Indiana University.