Korean Culture No.4
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A New Presence on the World’s Musical Stage
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orean classical music, or “K-Classics,” is a young eld. It isa youth that has the power to infuse a contemporary quality into classical music, rescuing it from its status as a simple museumpiece. As the stars that lit up the world classical music stage inthe postwar era began to fade away one by one, the global musicindustry demanded new faces and new ears. Korean classical musictoday is an inspirational answer to that call.
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A N e w P r e s e n c e o n t h e W o r l d ’ s M u s i c a l S t a g e
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