* Characteristic of Korean Folk song *
 On of the notable characteristic of Korean folk Song is the rhythm pattern. Korean music uses five musical scales while western music uses seven musical scales. Hence, the melody pattern of Korean folk song is rather simple compared with that of western. However, with the rhythm pattern, Korean music shows a speculiar characteristic. A rhythm pattern in a Korean folk song is obvious compared with Western folk song. In a song, a rhythm pattern exists from beginning to the end. The rhythm pattern of Korean folk song is divided into twenty. Almost of Korean folk song has one of these rhythm patterns. This property makes it possible to roughly classify all stored music data according to rhythm pattern. Historically, the instrument JangGo, one of the widely used instruments in Korean Music, has influenced the rhythm pattern of Korean folk song.

*Minyo(folk song) is expression of life*

  Korean people have enjoyed singing and dancing in their life from old times.

Cheerful songs and musical instruments have never been left out when they worked together by united efforts as well as have a good play after working. Even when they drew water from a wall or led a cow, humming song always followed.

This is the very Korean folk song "Minyo" that a lot of tunes were sung in this way. It is music, in living that is everyone can sing for which they don't have to learn particularly or produce it.

It was not produced by experts in music, but produced naturally in the life of general public, so it doesn't need a composer and lyric writer.

They added words containing their idea to the melody handed from old time, so they made an excursion and could forget the exhaustion of hard farm work.

The most attractive thing in "Minyo" lies in here. "Minyo" common works of art is handed down mouth by mouth through long times, emotion and feelings in their life are added to the word and melody is embellished by many people.

Thus Korean folk song, "Minyo" is ingenuous and beautiful. It being sometimes sad, exciting and merry is a piece of biography containing all human life, honest diary and wisdom for life told by my mother and mother of my mother.