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This study investigated various features of Seoul culture in the 1960’s through popular songs. In the 1960’s, Seoul faced the period of the second excessive expansion in population. In addition, many people started to settle down in Seoul by leaving their hometowns owing to the government-sponsored industrialization in this period. Seoul songs in the 1960’s could be largely divided into four. First, there were new faces appeared in the streets. Second, there were duets representing love and parting. Third, there were two faces of Seoul streets. Fourth, there were two features of returning to the farm and coming up to Seoul. Such songs expressed Seoul scenery in the 1960’s with hope and desperation, or smile and tears. Seoul was the place of happiness and pleasure to adolescent boys and girls, but it was the place of tears and sadness to those who parted from each other. Besides, morning in Seoul was generally full of hope, while night in Seoul was depicted as the place where grief and tears flowed. Meanwhile, some formal characteristics of Seoul songs in the 1960’s included the use of foreign words and of the names of certain places. Along with the influences of Western cultures, foreign words were considered appropriate to express the sophistication and brilliant image of the city. In addition, the use of concrete names for certain places played a role in enhancing the reality and presence by adding concreteness into the songs. Compared to Seoul songs during the Japanese colonial period, those in the 1960’s had less satirical spirits; however, they were meaningful in terms that they revealed the unique sentiment of a given period while reflecting the realities at that time.
