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t. e. The music of South Korea has evolved over the course of the decades since the end of the Korean War, and has its roots in the music of the Korean people, who have inhabited the Korean peninsula for over a millennium. Contemporary South Korean music can be divided into three different main categories: Traditional Korean folk music, popular ...
Traditional music ( 국악; gugak; lit. national music [1]) produced by Korea includes court music, folk music, poetic songs, and religious music used in shamanistic and Buddhist traditions. [2] Modern music includes K-pop ( 케이팝; keipap ), the popular music of South Korea. North Korea also produces its own popular music, as well as music ...
K-pop (Korean: 케이팝; RR: keipap), short for Korean popular music, is a form of popular music originating in South Korea as part of South Korean culture. It includes styles and genres from around the world, such as pop, hip hop, R&B, rock, jazz, gospel, reggae, electronic dance, folk, country, disco, and classical on top of its traditional Korean music roots.
Music of Korea. Music of Korea may refer to: Traditional music of Korea. Music of North Korea. Music of South Korea.
Demonstration of the sound of gayageum by a non-professional player. The gayageum or kayagum ( Korean : 가야금 ; Hanja : 伽倻琴) is a traditional Korean musical instrument. It is a plucked zither with 12 strings, though some more recent variants have 18, 21 or 25 strings. It is probably the best known traditional Korean musical instrument ...
Korean rock. Korean rock ( Korean : 한국의 록) is rock music from South Korea. [1] It has roots in American rock, which was imported to South Korea by U.S. soldiers fighting in the Korean War [2] [3] and stationing in U.S. military bases in South Korea after the war. Around the U.S. military bases, local musicians could have opportunities ...
Gayageum (가야금; 伽 倻 琴) – A long zither with 12 strings; modern versions may have 13, 15, 17, 18, 21, 22, or 25 strings. Geomungo (거문고) – A fretted bass zither with six to eleven silk strings that is plucked with a bamboo stick and played with a weight made out of cloth. Cheolhyeongeum (철현금; 鐵 絃 琴) – A geomungo ...
Arirang ( 아리랑 [a.ɾi.ɾaŋ]) is a Korean folk song. [1] There are about 3,600 variations of 60 different versions of the song, all of which include a refrain similar to "Arirang, arirang, arariyo" (" 아리랑, 아리랑, 아라리요 "). [2] It is estimated the song is more than 600 years old. [3]