Author
Song Hye-jin Professor Song Hye-jin is currently teaching Korean Traditional Musical History and Theory at Graduate School of Cultural Heritage Arts in Sookmyung Women’s University in Seoul, Korea. She worked for Gugak FM Broadcasting where she had been deeply involved with since its inception as a chief producer from 2000 to 2004. Prof. Song received her B.A. from Seoul National University, studying Gayageum performance at the department of Korean Traditional Music. She received her M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the Academy of Korean Studies majoring Korean Cultural Heritage arts (Traditional musical history and theory). After finishing her graduate school, she visited Durham University, England as a visiting scholar for one year.
Prof. Song had published books on Korean classical music studies including A Study on the History of Korean Confucius Ritual Music (2000), Korean Musical Instruments (2001), Let us listen to Korean Music as this way (2002), History of Korean Music for Young people’s (2007) etc.
Email: hjsong@sookmyung.ac.kr

Translator
Paek In-ok Paek In-ok is a Korean ethnomusicologist and Gayageum (long 12-string zither) player. She earned B.A. and M.A. degrees in Korean traditional music and musicology from Seoul National University and a Ph.D. in Ethnomusicology from Queen’s University Belfast, Northern Ireland. She was a Leverhulme Trust Post-doctoral Research Fellow in ethnomusicology at the University of Sheffield, UK. She currently serves as a member of the Editorial Committee of the International Journal of Music Education: Practice.
Her publications include co-editor and translator of Kugak: Studies in Traditional Korean Music by Hahn Man-young (1990), “Oral versus Written Traditions: Changing Modes in Teaching and Learning Traditional Music” (2002), “Folk Music: Vocal” (2007) and “Crossing the Border: The Gayageum Zither Tradition Amongst the Korean Minority in Northeastern China” (2008).