Chunggong, a U student group plays traditional Korean percussion music: Samulnori

REPORTER: With the spring finally visiting the campus and everybody enjoying these beautiful days, a University of Minnesota student group Chunggong plays Korean traditional percussion music called Samulnori to celebrate this perfect weather. Chunggong is a student group playing Samulnori and was founded in July 2014,

Gyoyeon Kim: to inform Korean traditional music to campus community and Twin Cities area, according to Gyoyeon Kim, the founder of Chunggong who is studying psychology at the University of Minnesota.

REPORTER: So this is Samulnori music Chunggong plays, which was derived from the Korean traditional folk genre.

Samulnori is based on the music people played in

Jisoo Back: the rice farming villages in the past.

REPORTER: This is Jisoo Back, the vice president of Chunggong, studying neuroscience and psychology at the University of Minnesota. She is explaining how people played samulnori in the past.