The Kumho Art Hall () is a classical music hall in Seoul, South Korea.

General

Kumho Art Hall is situated in the heart of downtown

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on the third floor of Daewoo E&C. Performances are held more than five times a week. Three of these are part of a planned series by Kumho Asiana Cultural Foundation (KACF): Beautiful Thursday Concert Series, Kumho Prodigy Concert Series, and Kumho Young Artist Concert Series.

Beautiful Thursday Series

In June 1997, Seong-Yawng Park, chairman of KACF, launched what became known as the Gallery Concert, held at

Kumho Museum of Art The Kumho Museum of Art is an art museum in Seoul, South Korea South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK), is a country in East Asia, constituting the southern part of the Korea, Korean Peninsula and sharing a Korean Demilitari ...

. Following the opening of Kumho Art Hall in December 2000, the gallery concert was reborn as the Friday Special Concert Series. When this series celebrated its tenth anniversary, in June 2007, it was renamed the Beautiful Thursday Series. Established Korean artists, including

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, Daejin Kim,

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, Myung-wha Chung, and international musicians of note such as

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, and Matthew Barley, have performed there.

External links

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