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The purpose of this paper is to examine Yi Seon-yu, the master singer of pansori (Korea's folk dramatic song sung in solo) in terms of his life and art, the words, and the characteristics of his music. These could be summarized as follow. 1. Related to his life and art, the following six matters are studied. First, through the interview with Yi Mo-sang who is Yi Seon-yu's daughter, it is confirmed thar he was born in 1873 and passed away in Jangdae-dong, Jinju-si, Gyeongnam province in April 1949. Second, He came of a reputable family of not only music and dance but also paintings. Third, the master singer, Yi Seon-yu had lived with his family for a long period of time until he died. And his youngest sister, Yi In-ja provided him and his family with an economic support. Fifth, Yi Seon-yu taught pansori at all over Hadong and Jinju area in Gyeongnam province, and used to transmit his music in Jinju-gweonbeon(literally means a union of female entertainer, gisaeng). Sixth, when he was a teacher in Jinju-gweonbeon, he made records of his music in Japan and he also left a complete work of the words of the five stories of pansori, 「Ogajeonjip」. 2. Through the detail examination of the master singer, Yi Seon-yu's Ogajeonjip, I reached a certain conclusion ; Yi seon-yu's words(사설) are classified into rather "old style"(고제) since his words are less specialized in daemok, an important part of the story, than those in Dongpeonje style are. In addition, some misspellings and dialects are mixed in Yi Seon-yu's words. 3. I reached the same conclusion as above(No. 2) after a study of the musical characteristics of the master Yi Seon-yu in terms of vocalization, mode, buchimsae(the way of setting words to melodies), and ornamentation.