Close-knit traditional music world faces reckoning over sexual abuse, silence

More than 3,000 people from Korea's traditional performing arts community have signed a joint statement condemning sexual violence in the field and calling for an end to a culture of silence that they say has allowed abuse to persist across generations. The statement, released Saturday by an emergency coalition of traditional performing artists, had drawn more than 3,190 signatures as of Monday morning, according to the group. More than 500 signatories are students. The outpouring followed a ser