The korean old pop 1970's -"what should I do?"

  It is necessary to know the history of Korean music if you want to understand the feelings of the Korean first.

Korea has adopted a western style democracy, which focuses on human rights as the main source of economic stimulus,  but of course, the roots of Korean feeling is a Joseon Dynasty.

 The Joseon Dynasty was a country with an emphasis on the ideological view.  It was a society in which every young people must show respect of elders especially parents, and loyalty to country was highly emphasized.  Of course, most countries like china, korea, japan in far east asia emphasized those virtues but korea was more severe than the others.  That's why even japan was surprised when they combined korea with japan.  The confucian ideas of korea cannot be imitated by japan.

 However, Such practices of  Koreans, led to side effects to the development of a new culture to come in korea.

Because Korean people was unfamiliar with ideas such as individualism from western society.  So  at the first time, most artists just tried to imitate superior 's way to satisfy the needs of society.  However, We can see signs of some changes in the 1970s. Since Many Music bands comprised of students of the University was formed from then on and they began to have voices. And broadcasting stations in Korea, began to broadcast the contest program to show their activities every year.

 I'd like to introduce one song in it. The name of the band comprised of students from Seoul National University was "sandpebbles". Lee Su-man was one of the members of this band, who is the president of the entertainment company SM  leading to K-pop today.

The theme of song is "what should I do?"

What should I do? -click to listen