Korean Language and Culture
By JAE-YOUNG YU
Contents
 Before the colonization
 During the annexation
 After the liberation to 60’s
 70’s & 80’s
 90’s
 After the new millenium
Before the Colonization
 Korean traditional Music: 국악
 정악: Music used in royal rituals and enjoyed by the
nobles
 민속음악: Music among the ordinaries and lows
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민요
 매화타령
판소리
 흥보가 중 ‘화초장 타령’
잡가
산조
시나위
During the Annexation
 (Modernized) Japanese style music:
 Enka: a popular Japanese music genre considered to
resemble traditional Japanese music stylistically.
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Sayuri Ishikawa - Meoto Zanzai - enka
 트로트 (trot): Korean style song (influenced by Enka)
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이난영 - 목포의 눈물 (1934)
남인수 - 애수의 소야곡 (1938)
After Liberation to 60’s
 New Gov., Divided Korea, Korean War (1950-53), 4.19
Revolution (1960), Coup by Park (1961)
 More trot:
 현인 신라의 달밤 1960
 고복수 타향살이 1960
 백설희 아메리카 차이나타운
 More western style:
 The Kim Sisters - Try To Remember (1960)
 초우 - 패티김 [패티김,1966]
 펄시스터즈 (Pearl Sisters) - 커피 한 잔 (1968)
70’s -80’s
 Park killed, Gwangju masscre, More democracy, 1988
Seoul Olympics
 Korean folk songs: Guitar & Jeans
 트윈폴리오 - 축제의 노래 (1973)
 김세환 - 좋은 걸 어떡해 + 무뚝뚝한 사나이
 이장희 - 그건 너
 김민기 - 아침 이슬
 Full blossoming of (old style) popular music:
 조용필 돌아와요 부산항에 1976
 김수철 - 못다핀 꽃한송이 (1983)
90’s
 Economic crisis- IMF intervention
 Dawn of Rap, hip hop, techno/ Birth of big
management companies
 서태지 와 아이들 (SeoTaiji and Boys)- 난 알아요 (I
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[김건모] '잘못된 만남' 뮤직비디오
Classic Kpop - 터보 (Turbo) - Twist King + DL
룰라 - 날개잃은 천사 (1995)
H.O.T - 행복
The New Millenium
 K-pop becomes more globalized
 비 – Rainism
 TVXQ!(동방신기) _ MIROTIC-주문
 BIGBANG - LIES (거짓말)
 소녀시대(Girls' Generation) 레터맨쇼(David
Lettermanshow) The Boys(더 보이즈)
 Wonder Girls - Tell Me
 2NE1 - I AM THE BEST (내가 제일 잘 나가)
 2NE1 - FIRE (Street Ver.)
 PSY - GANGNAM STYLE (강남스타일)