Chunhyang-jeon (Korean: 춘향전; Hanja: 春香傳; lit.
The Story of Chunhyang) is a 1950 Korean-language opera by South Korean composer Hyun Jae-Myung.
This is generally regarded as the first western-style Korean opera.
[1] During the Japanese colonial period, he, like most Koreans, was given a Japanese name based on his Korean one (玄山濟明 Kuroyama Sumiaki).
[2] The plot concerns a girl Sun Chunhyang, and is based on the original Chunhyangjeon, a 17th-century novel telling one of the best known traditional love stories of Korea, based on the pansori Chunhyangga.