Janggo chum is a dance performed while carrying and playing the janggo. Choe Seunghui re-choreographed the traditional janggo chum she learned from Han Seongjun. Following a separate lineage, the sibiche janggo chum of Gim Chwihong was transmitted through O Cheonhyang, and is now preserved by Han Hye-gyeong. This dance is accompanied by the Gyeonggi folk songs “Hangangsu Taryeong” and “Cheongchun-ga” together with the Seodo folk song “Gin Nanbong-ga,” reflecting the musical background of Gim Chwihong as a Pyeongyang gisaeng skilled in Seodo japga. folksongs of the Northwestern area. The accompanying music exhibits the origin creator of the dance, Gim Chwihong. Gim likely chose Seodo folk songs rather than “Daepungnyu,” the conventional accompaniment for Pyeongyang gisaeng dance. Her original accompaniment was probably replaced by Gyeonggi folk songs that gained popularity, particularly after the wide reception of Han and Choe’s Janggo chum. As Gyeonggi folk songs of the cultural center eclipsed the Seodo repertoire of the periphery, and as the division of Korea further erased the Seodo tradition, the coexistence of both regional folk song traditions in Sibiche Janggo chum likely reflects this historical process of displacement.

This paper examines the formation and structure of dance music and the relationship between dance and music in order to better understand Kim Chi-hong's style of the twelve-forms Janggo dance. Literature review and oral history research are employed as research methods, and the musical characteristics of sound sources and videos are analyzed using a characteristic decomposition method. The results of the study can be summarized in three points. First, this article revealed that the music of the dance was a Seodo folk song written at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries. There is a greater possibility of the twelve-forms Janggo dance and its music interacting during the period. Second, the rhythm of the twelve-forms Janggo dance changes from Jungmori (♩ =65), to Gutgeori (♩ =40), and then to Jajinmori (♩ =70-95) rhythm. Third, music was transmitted along with dance. The process of transferring the twelve-forms Janggo dance is closely related to lyrics, the melody, and the rhythm of “Ginnanbongga”, “Cheongchunga”, and “Hangang-soo taryeong”. This research is important because it indicates that the musical structure and formation of this dance contributed to the transmission and creation of the dance itself.