Current Status of P’ansori Globalization and Future Strategies

P’ansori is an old and beloved Korean oral tradition of storytelling. In P’ansori, a singer sings about the times, people, life, and the future to the beat of a Gosu drum. The P’ansori tradition must be spread as an art form beyond Korea. In this discussion, we present a networking strategy to globalize the P’ansori.First, we examined the discourse around globalization. Second, we examined the current status of P’ansori networking within the context of globalization. We looked at “offline” performances organized by the overseas Korean Cultural Center and the Ministry of Culture, Sports, and Tourism in the digital realm.we confirmed the presence of performances and educational videos relating to P’ansori and made them, especially for a foreign audience. Most of this content was found on YouTube. However, overseas online access to albums, books, and academic papers is still scant; particularly, very little literature has been translated for academic exchange. The activities and achievements of the Korean Cultural Center in France, for instance, are exemplary cases in such a scenario.Based on these achievements, we suggest four networking strategieswere : networking of P’ansori performances online and offline; educational networking through the long-term support of the Korean Cultural Center; networking among researchers for academic exchange and correct multilingual translation; and policy and public relations networking for digital informatization and online communication.As an intangible cultural heritage of the world, P’ansori should be promoted as a genre that contributes to the creation of new culture, while being preserved as a cultural asset of humankind. Diverse and omnidirectional networking is thus needed so that anyone around the world can enjoy, create, and share P’ansori.