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7.Kim Hong-chul, the father of the Korean yodel

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Since the 1990s, Kim Hong-chul left Canadian immigration. There were short-terms records and writing works in 1997, but his activities in Korea were very limited. In fact, he had been living in tough immigration and busy business so he almost forgot the yodels. Then one day he accidentally heard his old yodel again, and Kim Hong-chul comes back to Korea with the longing for the yodels and the homeland. And finally in 2003, "김홍철과 친구들Kim Hong-chul and his friends" were reorganized with new members. At last, "Kim Hong-chul and his friends" resume their performances and broadcasting activities in Korea. The Last Yodeler(1997) In 1997, "The Last Yodeler" was released, and Kim Hong-chul came back again in Korea. This new album was also based by his former hit yodels, but he mixed up the new genres as like hip-hop, jazz, pop, rock and so on. So the contemporary folk sensibility yodels in the 70s were reborn by the new atmospheres of the 90s. In &q
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8.the Birth of 한국 에델바이스 요델 클럽the Korea Edelweiss Yodel Club Kim Hong-chul, who go and return from Switzerland in '68, was the first Switzerland Yodeling-student in Korea. This unfamiliar but exciting music has attracted many Korean's attention, and the home of Kim Hong-chul  located in 응암동Eungam-dong, Seoul, had been full of people coming to learn yodel. In such an atmosphere, Kim Hong-chul and 10 other people will make first Korean yodel club named Edelweiss at YMCA[1] Jongno 2, Seoul. [1]The Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) is a Christian civil society formed in 1844 by evangelicals in the United Kingdom. There are more than 10,000 organizations in 120 countries around the world. In Korea, the Korea Christian Youth Association, founded in 1903, was the start of the Korea YMCA the Edelweiss was first created by 김장길Kim Jang-gil who worked in ad-agency, 이무일Lee Moo-il who was a KBS PD, and 현인송Hyun In-song who was a primary school teacher,
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6.Kim Hong-chul, the living witness of the Korean Yodel

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In the early '60s I walked on the street in a random opportunity to hear a strange vocalizations from the radio (I did not know which broadcast it was, but I just guess it 'the Travel to the world by music'). After listening, I tried to imitate the strange vocalizations (because it was fun). I stopped by the Korean National Library to check the materials and visited the newspaper investigation room, but there were only a few lines about Yodel. That context said, "yodel is a song by a Swiss & Alps shepherd". That's all! , I could not get nothing about what I want to know. So I decided to ask yodel in Switzerland and sent a English-letter(My English teacher help me) to the Tages-Anzeiger newspaper in Zurich, Switzerland. I asked "Can you send me yodel music-sheet and introduce me specialist who can learn Yodel? "in letter. Walter Bernays, the chief editor of the Tages-Anzeiger, sent me a music- sheet and a one-hour tape with yodeling samples
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