Korean makers of stringed instruments and bows, wherever they work.
K-Lutherie is a register of luthiers and archetiers of Korean origin: who they are, where they work, what they make, and where their instruments can be found.
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Korean luthiers now work in Cremona, Seoul, Los Angeles and beyond, winning medals at the Triennale and the VSA and sitting on international juries. Their work is known to the players who own it and the dealers who sell it, and to few others. This site puts them in one place.
News & Events
All ›October 2026
Three Korean makers at Cuvée Darling, Cremona
Darling Publications’ annual exhibition of contemporary instruments and bows, held on 2–3 October 2026 at the Società Filarmonica Ruggero Manna, included Caterina Rota Kim, Eunjin Kim and Sihyeon Park among its twenty-one violin makers.
February 2026
Fifteen Korean makers at La Forma del Suono, Los Angeles
An exhibition of contemporary instruments and bows at LA Fine Violins, 7–10 February 2026, showed work by forty-one makers from Europe, Asia and North America — fifteen of them Korean.
May 2025
Jihwan Park joins the jury of the Wieniawski Violin Making Competition
The Cremona-based maker is the first Korean luthier invited to judge the Henryk Wieniawski International Violin Making Competition in Poznań.