Korean National Orchestra: Traditional Korean Pungnyu

About the Event

Korea's renowned ensemble in Prague's most beautiful and prestigious concert venue.

Pungnyu is an aritstic form of recreation intrinsic to a tasteful lifestyle and relevant to Korea's collective and individual culture. Traditionally, pungnyu was a tool for transcending material and secular desires to develop peace of mind. In modern day Korea, pungnyu music is considered a representation of elegant aristocratic philosophy of the old Korean society, symbolizing tranquility of Zen.

The concert will take place in the Dvorak Concert Hall of the Rudolfinum, so named after the son of Emperor Franz Josef I and his wife Sissi.