Conference

Aram Lee, a Bamboo flutist, composer, producer, is a founder and director of Music Group NAMU.

He is a Musical Director of Yeowoorak Festival in 2020 as well as in 2018. Lee won the Winds Instruments Winner at 36th KBS(Korean Broadcasting System) Gugak Music Awards. He is also a member of BlackString.

CHA WOO JIN is interested in the media environment of music and the lifestyle of consumers. Writing about new media, content, platforms, and fan culture is being written to various media.

[Understanding popular music] and [Idol: From H.O.T. to Girls' Generation...] and [Korean Indie Label] and [Music Industry, Plate Change] were written by him.

He established TMI FM, a startup that provides consulting based on cultural research.

Hyunpill Shin well equipped himself with basic training during his experience in the Department of Classic Composition and moved onto Applied Music division in Seoul Institute of Art. 

He then hardened countenance as a saxophone player and advanced into Berkelee College of Music where is took on a double major in jazz composition and performance. 

He made a fancy debut in the music industry in Korea as he was awarded with 'The Best Soloist of the year' award in an international contest in the 2010 Jarasum International Jazz Festival. From then on, he collaborated with the representative jazz musicians in South Korea and formed SB Circle with ‘Gayageum player, Kyongso Park. After he released ’Topology’ with SB Circle, he continuously toured inside and outside of Korea.

He also compose for numerous major films and TV drama as director. 

After majoring in Arts Management, as the Head of the Planning and Strategy of the Soorim Cultural Foundation, Yun Jeong Hye has worked on planning and promoting the foundation’s projects.

Since 2012, she has organized the Soorim NewWave(formerly Bookchon Music Festival), which is a center for creation and for discovering young Korean musical artists, and she has also directed various collaborations with visual arts, fusion, and complex genres.

Park Jung-yong has been working as a representative of the concert hall Veloso (www.veloso.co.kr) since 2008.

From 2011 to 2016, he was in charge of the planning and production of the video project ‘Naver On Stage,’ and has been working to promote and introduce genre music through various activities including as the producer of Live Club Day (2015-2020), programmer of the DMZ Peace Train Music Festival (2018-2019), and a member of the Korean Music Awards Selection Committee (2005-2020).

Si-kyeong Song is the head of Performing Arts Division at Arts Council Korea where he had worked for almost 30 years since 1992. Moreover, Song participated not only in the research of Asian Arts Theatre by Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism but also consulted about legal and institutional resource to promote Foundational Arts by Culture and Tourism Committee.

After receiving the 13th Auditorium Art Critic Award, he has been playing criticism, lectures, writing, and advisory roles between classical music and traditional performing arts. Currently, he is the editor-in-chief of monthly [audience], an adjunct professor at Kookmin University, a member of the operating advisory committee of the National Gugak Center and Seoul Namsan Gugakdang, and a program director for the National Orchestra of Korea.

Won-il is a representative figure in the field of traditional Korean music, and has been active as a performer, composer, professor, artistic director, and band leader.

He is currently serving as the artistic director of the Gyeonggi Sinawi Orchestra and is hosting Yeosiamun, a radio program for Korean traditional music broadcasting.

Won-il is the inheritor of the important intangible cultural asset No. 46, Daechwita and Piri Jeongak. He served as the artistic director for the National Gugak Orchestra from 2012 to 2015, for the Yeo Woo-rak Festival from 2017, for the opening and closing ceremonies of the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics.

He also served as the general director of the opening and closing ceremonies of the 100th National Sports Festival and the 39th National Para Games in 2019.

Won Il formed the world music group 'Puri' in 1993 and served as the representative of the Korean music ensemble 'Wind Flower' from 2007 to 2011.