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Abstract

“Kyungbeondangga” is a work of Korean traditional sijo, included in The Diary of Bongsabugun in unknown authorship. “Kyungbeondangga” is composed of 14 verses. 12 verses sing about yearning and affection for the 12 months of the year, and the last two verses complete the poetic concepts in the previous verses. On the other hand, the relationship of the sijo of military people and “Kyungbeondangga” may be contemplated. This is based on the Bubang(a military visit to secure the border) record of Lee Jinmoon, who was a military person, although not the author of The Diary of Bongsabugun. Therefore, we were able to find out that among the sijo of military people, there were ones that sung of yearning and love. Furthermore, in the Joseon dynasty, there is a record that ginyeos(entertaining girls) were sent for the military people stationed in the borders. With this record and the studies of scholars in the past, we were able to conclude that the military people mainly sang of affection when they sang with the ginyeos who were a part of their daily lives, or when they observed a banquet where the ginyeos performed. Therefore, we sought a point of contact between the sijos of ginyeos with known ownership and “Kyungbeondangga”. As a result, we were able to find common traits between “Kyungbeondangga” and the sijos written by ginyeos who worked in the Gwanseo region (the northwest region of the Korean peninsula). Verse 14 in particular was found to be related to various sijos of the region. That is, “Kyungbeondangga” may be seen as ‘a song that a military person sang to a ginyeo on his Bubang to a border area’, ‘a written record of a song of a ginyeo who worked in a border area’, or ‘a written record of a parody of a song of the ginyeos in another region sung by a ginyeo in a border area’. It parts into three possibilities, but we can see that “Kyungbeondangga” is a sijo that roots from the ginyeo culture in the Gwanseo region regardless of which case it may fall under. In addition, we may assume an influential relationship between “Kyung- beondangga” and the sijo written by Lee Sebo, which was assessed as "the only sijo written in the form of praising the 12 months of the year". Of course, further study is necessary in this direction. However, there is a possibility that as the case of “Chunmeongok”, “Kyungbeondangga” sung in the regions around Hampyeong or Gwanseo may have influenced Lee Sebo, or that Lee Sebo was exposed to the “Kyeongbeondangga” which was then circulated in the Jeollanamdo regions during his exile in Shinjido, Wando, in Jeollanamdo. In conclusion, “Kyungbeondangga” is related to the ginyeo culture, the singing culture of Gwanseo and Jeonnam regions, and the sijo of Lee Sebo. Especially, the creation period can be assumed through conducting a comparison study with the sijo of Lee Sebo.