Seopyeonje (Korean: 서편제) is a 1993 South Korean musical drama film directed by Im Kwon-taek, based on the eponymous novel by Yi Chong-jun. It is the first South Korean film to draw over one million audiences and has had significant influence in reviving popular interest in traditional Korean culture and pansori.

In a Korean inn on a small pass called Soritjae of Boseong County, South Jeolla Province during the early 1960s, Dong-ho, a middle-aged businessman, asks a pansori singer at the inn if the road and inn's name, "Road of Music" and "Inn of Music", were named after her singing; she says that they were named after a man and that she learned singing from his daughter. Dong-ho requests a song and accompanies her with his drum, recalling his past.

As a child, Dong-ho's mother, a widow, and Yu-bong, a widower and poor pansori singer, were sexually involved and eloped with Dong-ho and Song-hwa, his adopted daughter, to avoid scandal. The woman becomes pregnant with Yu-bong's child but both die from birth complications.

The singer confirms that the pansori singer was Yu-bong, who stayed in the house until his death, and that she learned to sing from Song-hwa, who left after mourning his death for three years. She surprises Dong-ho by telling him that she was blind when she left; while some say that Yu-bong had blinded her to make sure she would always stay by his side, others believe that he blinded her to inflict great sorrow in her heart so she could become the best possible singer, but reminds him that these are only theories.

The flashback resumes with Yu-bong teaching the young Dong-ho and Song-hwa the verses to Jindo Arirang. Dong-ho does not exhibit the same singing talent as Song-hwa, so Yu-bong begins to train him as a pansori gosu to accompany her. While traveling, they meet Yu-bong's friend Nak-san, a street artist calligrapher, who believes that Korean folk music is no longer a means to make a living as people turn to Western and Japanese songs instead and offers to take Song-hwa in. After watching a performance of Chunhyangga, Yu-bong and the male lead, formerly students under the same master, have a drink, but the situation turns sour when Yu-bong believes the lead is feigning sympathy for his situation and storms out.

During autumn many years later, Dong-ho and Song-hwa have both grown up to be young adults. At an event, Song-hwa impresses the male audience with her singing and is forced to pour drinks for them. After returning home, Yu-bong berates her for dishonoring the pansori profession. The three continue their journey and continue to lose jobs and money due to Yu-bong's anger issues and alcoholism.

Once, while singing Chunhyangga on the streets, a marching band passing by quickly draws the audience away from the trio and drown out their singing. Exasperated, Yu-bong visits a friend in order to teach Song-hwa new skills. When Dong-ho interjects that Song-hwa has no energy to sing because they have had to live off of porridge daily. Yu-bong furiously attacks him. Dong-ho retaliates and leaves despite Song-hwa's wishes that he stay.

The flashback ends and in the present, Dong-ho travels to Osu, North Jeolla Province, where he finds out from a gisaeng that Song-hwa left their establishment three years ago but had been waiting for him. Coincidentally, he meets Nak-san, who recalls what happened after Dong-ho left.