This examines the formation background of Han Seong-jun’s Janggo-chum, the performance activity of his disciple Kang Seon-young, and its transmission to Yang Seong-ok.

The celebrated drummer Han Seong-jun understood fully the united relation between dance and rhythm, and developed it into a traditional dance through musical elaboration.

Kang Seon-young, a pupil of the Joseon Music Dance Research Association led by Han Seong-jun, was attached to his dance and idea to preserve and hand down the Korean Dance. In 2000 she presented the performance, restoring the prototypic repertoire of nine pieces of Korean traditional dance including Janggo-chum performed by her master in 1930s. This study focuses on the transmission aspect and analyzes the characteristics of the dance movements presented in literature, performance pamphlets, moving pictures, and interviews.

First, the composition puts emphasis on playing the hand beat that can back up dance movements so that a dancer skilled at beating by hand can dance without help of a drumstick. Second, the music is made up with a ballad tuned accompaniment, starting from the lengthy tune over to fast, and back to lengthy in the end. Third, the dance contains the Korean beauty of moderation in the harmony of elegant movements and light rhythm according to the musical change. Fourth, the costume consists of a white upper garment with indigo cuffs and purple garment strings, and a crimson skirt. Fifth, the genealogy is from Han Seong-jun to Kang Seon-young, again to Yang Seong-ok, and there are many successors today.