Music Inspired by Korean Poetry: Sijo Poems in Settings from Classical to Hip-Hop

October 2017, Poetry Foundation

Originally, sijo were first and foremost written as songs and performed with musical accompaniment. In continuing this tradition, the Sejong Cultural Society has begun to collaborate with numerous musicians from a range of different genres in creating musical works based on and featuring sijo. Through modern and popular mainstream genres of music, we hope that contemporary prize-winning and classic sijo will be used in works that may appeal to the younger generations. In the future, we hope to see sijo expressed through a wide variety of media forms.