Education A self-study program : Farm Equipment and Korean Folk Songs
Event A connection with 2021 Special Exhibition with the Seoul Museum of Korean Folk Music: Folk Singers of This Land
Education A self-study program for kids during the winter vacation: Seas and Korean Folk Songs
Data “Songs our grandmas and grandpas used to sing when they were young”—a sourcebook of traditional nursery rhymes
A folk song is spontaneously made in living with no lyric or songwriters and then transferred down from mouth to mouth. A traditional child verse, one of the folk songs, sung by children, reflects what kids are like as they are with their clear and pure minds.Nursery rhymes are naturally made and changed following the trend of an age, but a few of them are inherited up to these days.
However, even such a few have come to mostly disappear thrust out by the sudden industrialization since the 1960s. Fortunately, the oldsters refreshed their memories to sing nursery rhymes that are almost forgotten and those have barely remained in the form of recorded data.The Seoul Museum of Korean Folk Music selected 40 child verses so that many kids could sing and enjoy them, and the Museum had the songs re-recorded with kids’ voices to issue the “songs our grandmas and grandpas sang in their childhood.”We hope you listen to this a lot.