Goguryeo · History & tradition
Wang San-ak
The musician credited with adapting a foreign instrument into the geomungo.
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Tradition says Wang Sanak reworks a seven-stringed instrument brought from China into a form suited to Goguryeo’s music. He is also credited with composing many pieces for it.
Legacy
His biography is sparse, while the instrument’s origin story remains familiar. The account remembers creation through adaptation rather than invention without precedent.