Корейский традиционный барабан "бук"

Korean traditional drum

The buk (북) is a traditional Korean drum. While the term buk is a native Korean word used as a generic term meaning "drum" (the Sino Korean word being go), it is most often used to refer to a shallow barrel shaped drum, with a round wooden body that is covered on both ends with animal skin. Buk are categorized as hyeokbu (혁부, 革) which are instruments made with leather, and has been used for jeongak (Korean court music) and folk music.

The buk used for court music are usually fixed with nails on the rims, while ones used for folk music are usually tied up with leather straps to form the shape. Performers in the court music usually beat their with bukchae (북채, a drum stick) on one hand or two hands together, while drummers in the folk music commonly beat their with it on their right hand as hitting the other side of the buk with their bare left hand. A while ago, even jong (종, bell) was referred to as "soebuk" (쇠북, metal drum) and included in the buk category. In the Goryeo period (918–1392), as and were introduced to Korea from China, a lot of such as , , began to be used for the court music. In the Joseon period, scores of were used for the royal court music including and others. Among them was also used for folk music, and later became the most commonly used instrument. While there are twenty types of buk used in the present Korean traditional music, most commonly used buk are to perform (삼현육각, 三絃六角), for marching music, for (북춤, drum dance), for Buddhist ritual ceremonies, sogo used by Namsadang, and street musicians, or called for , (or called ) used for , and used by farmers as working.

There are two forms of undecorated used in Korean folk music: the used to accompany ', which has tacked heads, is called a (소리북), while the buk used to accompany pungmul music, which has laced heads, is called pungmul buk (풍물북). photo The is played with both an open left hand and a stick made of birch that is held in the right hand, with the stick striking both the right drumhead and the wood of the drum's body. The pungmul buk is one of the four instruments used in samul nori, a modern performance version of pungmul. It is played by striking a single stick (usually with the right hand) on only one of its heads. Due to its similarity in shape and construction, the (hangul: 용고; hanja: 龍鼓; literally "dragon drum"), which is a barrel drum with tacked heads decorated with painted dragon designs and used in the military wind and percussion music called daechwita, is sometimes also classified as a form of buk. It is struck with two padded sticks. A modern set of buk (usually four) is called modeum buk (모듬북). photo They are typically placed horizontally on wooden stands and played with sticks. photo