Hello! Welcome to the Seoul Museum of Korean Folk Music.

The words of Korean Folk Music in the name of the Museum

indicate a native folk song the ordinary people sang.

Korean folk songs are the songs genuinely inherited from mouth to mouth in this land. With the fast industrialization, Korean folk songs have disappeared into the other side of the memories of the oldsters. A public institution and the willing participants have long since come forward to collect the Korean folk songs disappearing. The Korean people love singing and even sing very well. They sing even when working or performing a ritual. Singing has never been skipped over when several people gather for fun. The reason that the Seoul Museum of Korean Folk Music was able to be founded is that Korean folk songs as intangible assets that have been inherited from the forefathers. The Museum intends to collect and organize those inherited findings to form the basis of academic research, education, and creation of the songs. As a unique museum where it is possible to find and access Korean traditions, the Seoul Museum of Korean Folk Music at the entrance to Gugak-ro, in which “Gukak” means Korean traditional music, waits for citizens to visit it. Touring and experiencing the Museum, please discover the simple and sheer beauty of Korean folk songs.