The Seoul Metropolitan Traditional Orchestra is the nation’s first traditional music orchestra, established with the aim of modernizing, popularizing and globalizing traditional musicin 1965. To date, it has helda variety of overseas concerts, a regular concert that has seen about 300 repetitions, and some 2,000 special concerts to fully play the role of a traditional music orchestra representing Seoul City while receiving a lot of love from Seoulites and the audiences inside and outside of the country.

It has shared the important spirits and values of Korean traditional arts with the world, expressed sympathy with modern people, exchanged inspiration with culture and the arts in different genres and sought to become an open art group, putting enormous efforts in playing its role through the creative succession of the cultural heritage of humanity.

In Seoul, the hub of Asian culture and history in the harmony of traditional culture and modernity, it will create a new history as a Seoul metropolitan art group connecting yesterday and today and making a future of today’s traditions with beautiful traditional art and creative traditional music orchestra.