Revisiting the South Korean Youth Culture and T’ongkit’a Music

ABSTRACT T’ongkit’a music grew out of the 1960s Korean youth culture, which was centered on elite university students. Previous studies on t'ongkit’a music often highlight its political and social consciousness, but even in its heyday, t’ongkit’a music’s relationship with political activism was limited and accidental. Though it should not be overlooked that the youth’s music was a new mode of social and aesthetic interaction and communication, its political values and effects are rather a later invention of the progressive popular music researchers