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The Wave of Korean Pop Music
——a critical part of Korean Wave
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The history of modern pop music can be divided into 4 periods. The first, in the 1920s to the beginning of 1990s, the period of preparation. The economic development in the 1980s enhanced the external communication of Korea with the outside world when Korean pop music began to absorb some features of Western music. The second, in 1992 to 1996, the period of a turn. In this period, Korean vulgar music began to merge with Western music materials. The presentative of musicians in this period is Xu Taizhi, who made an innovation of Korean music form, truly combing African music with vulgar music in Korea. From him, Korean musicians began to drive Korean music to a direction of having particular characteristics. The third, the grown-up period. Along with the return of a large number of Korean Americans and the expansion of international music communications, Korean musicians remoulded Western dance music and absorbed some musical ingredients of Blue and Jazz, taking Korean traditional music and language style into consideration, and finally give birth of the typical Korean pop music, which took advantage of the form of idol groups and began to walk out of Korea. The fourth, from 2000 to now, the development period. After 2000, the trait of Korean pop music tend to stabilize, with a majority of dance, pop electrical sounds and Hip-Hop. Meanwhile, many singers and groups well-known in whole Asia has appeared. 【3】
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Modern Korean pop music has absorbed the characteristics of both Eastern and Western music, combining Ballade, Rap, Dance, R&B, Rock, Hiphop, Indie and Jazz etc. these so many music forms. Modern Korean Pop music is based on dance music, with an emphasis on r