page_title: Pungmul
section_title: Instruments
hierarchical_section_title: Pungmul / Music / Instruments
caption_attribution_description: Ggaenggwari(꽹과리), Korean musical instrument.
context_page_description: Pungmul is a Korean folk music tradition that includes drumming, dancing, and singing. Most performances are outside, with dozens of players all in constant motion. Pungmul is rooted in the dure farming culture. It was originally played as part of farm work, on rural holidays, at other village community-building events, and to accompany shamanistic rituals, mask dance dramas, and other types of performance. During the late 1960s and 1970s it expanded in meaning and was actively used in political protest during the pro-democracy movement, although today it is most often seen as a performing art.
  Older scholars often describe this tradition as nongak, a term meaning "farmers' music" whose usage arose during the colonial era. The Cultural Heritage Administration of South Korea uses this term in designating the folk tradition as an Important Intangible Cultural Property. Opposition from performers and scholars toward its usage grew in the 1980s because colonial authorities attempted to limit the activity to farmers in order to suppress its use and meaning among the colonized. It is also known by many synonymous names throughout the.
  Drumming is the central element of pungmul.
context_section_description: In general, the major 5 instruments are used for play Pungmul. There are kkwaenggwari (RR- ggwaenggwari) (small handheld gong), janggu (hourglass drum), buk (barrel drum), and jing (gong) and sogo.
  They are all different style to play, sounds, and the group of play each instruments. But all of them make a sound at the same time.
  The first person of each group to play instruments is called 'sue' or 'sang'. (like 'sang soe'(other word of kkwaenggwari), 'sue janggu(same as sang janggu), 'sue buk ', 'sue bukku(who play with sogo)')
caption: The majority of soe players today hold the instrument in the left hand by suspending it either with the first finger or the thumb.
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