Since 1900, Western music was first introduced and included 
in the school music curriculum; while Western-influenced Korean composers began to accept the practices of Western classical and Romantic European music, and composed songs using Korean text (poems), many composition are of the Western melodic type.
Some songs have a combination of the Western and the traditional Korean. Several songs, which have elements of the genuine Korean musical characters are selected. The topics are longing (love), departing, home, war and nature such as mountain, river, sea, birds and flowers....more
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