Founded in 2005, Kook Lim Won has tenaciously adhered to Korea¡¯s long tradition against the dominant ¡°Digital¡±. When it comes to producing Korean traditional crafts and percussion instruments, the company has been based on long years of experiences and in-depth technology, while focusing on quality items that enhance customers¡¯ traditional music experience.
Kook Lim Won¡¯s traditional crafts show a great variety and functional properties. There are rice jars, traditional chairs, tables, closets, drums, and health items. Those manually carved rice jars are made of paulownia wood, and have decorative, unique, and natural patterns with special coating that will keep harmful insects away. Also paulownia based drums with high quality leather can make natural sounds that otherwise would never be heard. They are ideal as decorative household items.
Kook Lim Won¡¯s another category has to do with Korea¡¯s traditional musical instruments which are mostly used for Samulnori (Korea¡¯s traditional percussion music). It consists of a wide variety of items such as small gongs (Kwaenggwari), larger gongs (Jings), hourglass-shaped drums (Janggu), barrel drums ( Buk), etc. Janggu is available in many different sizes,
and Kwaenggwari has three types: conventional, gold, and silver. There are also the other items like bags for Kwaenggwar.
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