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Acording to the Samguksagi(三國史記), geomungo was an renovated musical instrument from Chinese chilhyenguem(七絃琴, 7 strings zither) which was from from China. It means that geomungo is an foreign musical instrument. This paper is a comparative research for Korean geomungo, Thai jakhe, Burmese miguan and Indian rudra veena those who have many similarities. To compare of the number of strings, Thai jakhe and Burmese miguan have 3 strins, Korean geomungo has 6 strings and Indian rudra veena has 7 strings. Although they have many strings, they use only two strings for the playing the main melody; Geomungo use the Yuhyuen(遊絃 second string) and Daehyuen (大絃 3rd string), jakhe use the second and third string, rudra veena use the first and second string. To compare of the number of fret, geomungo has 16 frets, jakhe has 13 frets, rudra veena has 22~24 frets. But all of them have drone strings. To compare the symbol of musical instruments, they have symbolic animal related to bird; geomungo with black crane(玄鶴), Thai jakhe and Burmese miguan with dragon and phoenix, rudra veena with dragon and pheonix. Chinese musician Chen Yang(陳暘)'s Yue Shu(樂書) wrote the venna as 'gonghu with dragon head'(鳳首??). The word Thai jakhe means crocodile, but before names as jakhe was called as Mayuri menes peacok The mayuri is a Indian hindhi word for peacock. They have many similarities with using fret instruments, the number of playing string, using the drone string and symbolic animal. They might be have same origin probably.