Prof. Chae Soojung, School of Korean Traditional Arts, Granted the 6^th Pansori Maestro Lim Bangul Award

Professor Chae Soojung of the School of Korean Traditional Arts was nominated for the 6^th Pansori Maestro Lim Bangul Award. The Pansori Maestro Lim Bangul Award selects candidates from the pool of winners of the presidential award at the Lim Bangul Gugak Festival. The one who celebrated the artistic spirit of pansori maestro Lim Bangul by contributing to the succession, dissemination, promotion, and development of pansori becomes appointed.

Prof. Chae won the presidential award at the 2011 Lim Banggul Gugak Festival in pansori singing. Since 2015, she served as a professor in the School of Korean Traditional Music at K-Arts and put efforts into inheriting and disseminating pansori through various activities including teaching, publishing, and producing music records.

Chae was the first to attain a Ph.D. in pansori from Ewha Womans University and later earned her MA in Korean Language and Literature from Kyung Hee University. She showcased pansori busking performances in the Insa-dong streets. She also contributed to popularizing pansori by participating in a TV show, “Excursion to Pansori,” and an MBC radio program, “Good Morning, Korean Tune” as a scriptwriter.

Chae served as a chairman of the World Pansori Association, a non-profit corporation, in 2022. The representative publications of hers are “Score of Park Songhee’s Heungbo-ga,” “Musicology of Joongmori-jangdan Usage in 5 Major Pansori Songs,” and “Chae Soojung’s Probing into Song of Red Cliff.”

Chairman Kim Joongchae of the Lim Bangul Foundation stated, “The Pansori Maestro Lim Bangul Award is given to those who have contributed to promoting the value of gugak among the winners of the Lim Bangul Gugak Festival. Not only will we inspire our awardees but do our best to support their artistic activities.”