Chunhyang-jeon (opera)

Chunhyang-jeon (춘향전, 春香傳 "The Story of Chunhyang") is a 1950 Korean-language opera by Hyun Jae-Myung (현제명) a South Korean composer. This is generally regarded as the first western-style Korean Opera.^[1] During the Japanese colonial period, he, like most Koreans, was given a Japanese name based on his Korean one (玄山濟明 Kuroyama Sumiaki).^[2] The plot concerns a girl Sun Chunhyang, and is based original Chunhyangjeon is a 17th Century novel telling one of the best known traditional love stories of Korea, based on the pansori Chunhyangga.

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1. University of Seoul Gallery "The bust of Hyun Jae-Myung, who was a musician, founder of Kyungsung School of Music, and the first dean of SNU's College of Music, is located in front of Building Number 54. Hyun composed and conducted the first Korean Opera "Chun Hyang Jeon" in 1950, and composed the well-known "Prince Hodong" in 1958. The College of Music Alumni Association funded the production of the sculpture and presented it to the school on October 16th, 1961."
2. (pdf) 동아일보