A Study on the Development Plan through Analysis of the Status of the Middle School Gugak Education

Gugak (Korean traditional music) is a great legacy of the Korean people, which has developed creatively through the long history of contacting with foreign music. However, it has been neglected in school education, and its importance has gradually increased through the revision of the curriculum. This study intends to figure out whether gugak education is actually expanding in the school field and to study development plans by analyzing the current status of gugak education in 10 middle schools located in Gangnam-gu, Seoul. As a result of analyzing the gugak class hours in the 10 middle schools for three years, they are 24.7 hours on average, or 19.7% of the entire music class hours, which are considerably lower than the number of Western music class and far below the proportion of curriculum or textbooks. The distribution of the proportion of gugak class hours is 8.4% ~ 31.8%, which shows that there is a significant deviation by school. The intensive completion system is implemented by 8 schools, and the distribution by area is 41.9% for appreciation, 32% for instrumental music, 19.6% for singing, 5.8% for daily life, and 0.6% for creative writing. There is only one school that organizes all areas evenly. Moreover, due to the COVID-19, the vocal and wind instrument performance classes have decreased while the appreciation classes have increased relatively, for which alternatives are required.…