Pansori (Korean:판소리, also spelled p'ansori) is a Korean genre of musical storytelling performed by a vocalist and a drummer. The music is usually performed by one sorikkun (Korean:소리꾼, a singer) and one gosu (a drummer playing a barrel drum called buk Korean:북). The term pansori is derived from pan (Korean:판, meaning "a place where many people gather"), and sori (Korean:소리, meaning "sound").