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This treatise aims at exploring the process of formation of modern folklore and criticizing its features, especially at the aspect of criticism for colonialism. As known well, the open-port city of Korea had been opened by the result of enforcement by the Japanese Empire with its military and economic power. After opening port cities, Japanese bring their westernized modern folklore into the cities where transmitted folklore were succeed, and tried to settle between the colonized people, Koreans. Being of transmitted folklore, the imported folklore was seemed fascinating because it was regarded in the same light as the military and economic power itself of Japanese Empire. Therefore Koreans, the colonized people could not help excluding it especially in daily lives, so they received and adopted it as new life style. In addition to that, with the effect of the imported modern folklore, the form and process of transmitted folklore was changed partly or mostly. Beyond such cases, wholly new modern folklore was created which was mixed with imported modern folklore and transmitted one. Through such process, Korean modern folklore had been formed by receiving the imported modern folklore, changed pre-existed folklore as mixed one and created new one which did not exist before. At the result of such reception, change and creation, modern folklore had been formed at open port cities as Busan after modern times and transmitted to nowadays. With this explore and research, it became to be possible to use the method of criticism to colonialism on adapting to another cultural phenomena in modern society. Because many phenomena have been formed through similar process like Korean modern folklore in the relation of colonialism.