Influence of Bupyeong Samneung(三稜) and Sinchon(新村) on the Korean Popular Music History

Under the Japanese colonialism the Incheon Army Arsenal was created in the Bupyeong area, and since Korea’s independence, this area was converted into a US military camp, forming a new modern urban landscape. The representative legacy created in this new modern urban landscape is Korean popular music that developed around the Samneung[三稜] and Sinchon[新村] in Bupyeong area. Although the popular music spaces of Bupyeong Samneung and Sinchon have a special and national meaning in the history of popular music in Korea, no full-scale research has been conducted. This study examines the formation process of Korean popular music space that appeared in the process of converting the Incheon Army Arsenal in the Bupyeong area into the US military camp since independence. The heritage value of the Incheon Army Arsenal can only be revealed when we look diachronically not only at the arsenal itself but also at the post-liberation landscape changes, and a plan to utilize it based on profound understanding can be sought.