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Sijo has received considerable attention and has been studied a lot as the most significant genre in Korean literature. But owing to incomplete and wrong viewpoint about it, there are still misunderstandings and errors of it. The biggest one of them is that being overlooked the musical nature which sijo has originally, it has been dealt with one-sidedly only as literature. This can be applied to modern sijo but can’t be applied to old sijo, the root of modern sijo. The intention of this study is to look into the musical nature closely as the essential character of sijo and establish a basis to review sijo positively. Actually there were some efforts to discuss it, though. It is absolutely necessary to review it positively.