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  • Call NumberBHAP_0001
  • SummaryDocumentary interview with Chi-Chung Kim, a folklorist who specializes in Korean percussion music, by Vong Pak at Mr. Kim's home in Queens. Chi-Chung Kim speaks about his 70 years playing Korean traditional pungmul percussion music and what Korean music means to him. Interview was recorded in two parts on October 27, 2022 and November 3, 2022.
  • Date2022
  • Physical Description1 moving image file (22 min.) : digital, MP4, color
  • CreatorPak, Vong
  • CollectionBrooklyn Heritage Ambassadors Project collection
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Public Library
  • Formatmoving image
  • Genreinterviews
  • NoteThis documentary was written and directed by Vong Pak in Brooklyn, New York and edited by Noah Namgoong as part of the Heritage Ambassador Program. The first public showing of the documentary was on January 15, 2023, hosted virtually by Brooklyn Public Library on BPL Facebook. Brooklyn Public Library’s Folk Arts program is supported by funds from the New York State Council on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts.
  • SubjectMusic--Korea ; Folk music--Korea ; Music and folklore ; Korea Social life and customs
  • PlaceFlushing (New York, N.Y.)
  • RightsThis work is covered by a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Users are free to share and adapt the work for non-commercial purposes as long as appropriate credit is given to the source and new material created with this work is shared under the same conditions.
  • TitleA tool for peace: interview with a Korean folklorist, Mr. Chi-Chung Kim.
  • Biographical NoteChi-Chung Kim is a pungmul player who was one of the first to introduce Korean folklore to the East Coast of the United States. Vong Pak is a Korean folklorist, teaching artist, and theatre practitioner. He is a Creatives Rebuild New York (CRNY) grant award artist and Brooklyn Public Library Heritage Ambassador. He is currently documenting first generation Korean immigrant folklores in the U.S.