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Some suggestions on the study of Si-Ga literature Kim Seong-su Si-Ga literature is actually the literature of songs as the name implies, so it is natural for serious researches to focus on its musical features. However, the Korean Si-Ga has traditionally concentrated rather on it’s the words of a song’s contents and forms. Even though some claim that re-consideration on the traditional trend is needed, the situation seems not optimistic since the claims made on the issue hasn’t got much intention in the academic circle yet, and also they are not clear enough to be persuasive. If the researches on Si-Ga literature only focus on Si-Ga itself, they would not go beyond the own boundary of Si-Ga. When we pursue the essential factors of Si-Ga such as music and song, we could make a turning point for a new start by remedying the shortcomings of previous researches. A key point to remember in doing researches on Si-Ga literature is that if we try to keep only our own viewpoint, we would lose many aspects of Si-Ga literature. We need to get rid of the bias of ideology originated from our linguistic and cultural characteristics and to pursue objective academic truth. The perspective on Si-Ga literature would be widen when we take the viewpoint of comparative literature. When we study Si-Ga focusing on its musical features and taking the viewpoint of comparative literature, we could find a breakthrough different from the perspective of previous researches and would get great academic achievements. I discussed the research perspective and expected results while examining actual cases in several genres.