The Fifteenth Im Bang-ul Korean Classical Music Festival
Invitation to the Korean Classical Music in the Southern Area The nationally acclaimed vocalist born in Gwangju, Im Bang-ul was an unprecedented singer in history, created his own unique way of singing and sang the sorrow and grief of the people under Japanese colonial rule in a country marketplace or a sandy plain rather than on a splendid stage. In order to commemorate and transmit Im Bang-ul's accomplishments and thus, for his deploring voice to echo in the hearts of Koreans everlastingly, we hold an annual Im Bang-ul Korean classical music festival. Im Bang-ul Korean classical music festival is a representative national music festival held in order to inherit the tradition of art town, to find out and bring up promising young national musicians, and to establish the authority as a national music home through the popularization of Korean national classical music.
Host : Gwangju Metropolitan City, SBS and The Chosun Ilbo
Period: October 15 to 18, 2007(for four days)
Place: Gwangju Culture & Art Center, Citizen's Hall and three other sites
Main Events: Korean national classical music contest for students, general people and noted singers, the Eve celebration, Im Bang-ul Pansori(a traditional Korean narrative song) concours
The Fifteenth Im Bang-ul Korean Classical Music Festival
Host : Gwangju Metropolitan City, SBS and The Chosun Ilbo 
