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Sounds Of Resistance: Korean Minjung Gayo
08 Jul 2026

Sounds Of Resistance: Korean Minjung Gayo

In the 1980s, the South Korean democracy movement came to a head against the brutal Chun Doo Hwan military regime. As a part of the cultural movement against authoritarianism, capitalist exploitation, and US imperialism, Korean students and workers composed songs that expressed the spirit of the "minjung" - the people.

Noraereul Channeun Saramdeul (The Song Seekers) was one of many noraepae singing clubs that served as the face of the movement, but in the 90s and 2000s a flood of other groups emerged, melding Western folk idioms, Soviet-style choirs, MIDI programming, and Korean traditional rhythms. This mix highlights the peak of minjung gayo (peopleโ€™s songsโ€ from the 1980s-2000s. Selected by DJ Hotpot.

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Tracklist

  • ์ •ํƒœ์ถ˜(Jeong Tae Chun)
    ์ด›๋ถˆ (Candlelight)
  • ์ฒœ์ง€์ธ(Cheonjiin)
    ์ฒญ๊ณ„์ฒœ8๊ฐ€ (Cheonggyecheon 8-Ga)
  • ๋…ธ๋ž˜๋ฅผ ์ฐพ๋Š” ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค (People Looking For Songs)
    ์ž ๋“ค์ง€ ์•Š๋Š” ๋‚จ๋„ (The Southern Island That Doesn't Sleep)
  • ๋‹จ๊ฒฐํˆฌ์Ÿ๊ฐ€
    (Song Of Unified Struggle)
  • ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋‚˜๋ผ (Our Country)
    โ€œ์ฃผํ•œ๋ฏธ๊ตฐ ์ฒ ๊ฑฐ๊ฐ€โ€ (Down With The United States Forces Korea)
  • ํฌ๋ง์ƒˆ (Bird Of Hope)
    โ€œ๋“ค์–ด๋ผ ์–‘ํ‚ค์•ผโ€ (Listen Up, Yankee)
  • ์˜ค์›”์˜ ๋…ธ๋ž˜ 2
    (Song Of May No. 2)
  • ์ข‹์€ ์นœ๊ตฌ๋“ค (Good Friends)
    โ€œ๋ฐ”๋ฆฌ์ผ€์ดํŠธโ€ (Barricade)
  • ๋ฉ”์ด๋ฐ์ด (May Day)
    โ€œ๋’ค๋Œ์•„๋ณด์•„๋„โ€ (Even When Looking Back)
  • ์กฐ๊ตญ๊ณผ ์ฒญ์ถ˜ (Homeland And Youth)
    โ€œ์ฒ˜์Œ์ฒ˜๋Ÿผโ€ (Like The First Time)
  • ๋…ธ๋ž˜๊ณต์žฅ (Song Factory)
    ์•„์ง๋„ (Still)
  • ๊ฝƒ๋‹ค์ง€ (Kkotdaji)
    โ€œ๋ฐ”์œ„์ฒ˜๋Ÿผโ€ (Like A Rock)
  • ๋†๋งŒ๊ฐ€
    (Farmers' Song)
  • ์•ˆ์น˜ํ™˜ (An Chi-Hwan)
    ์ฒ ์˜ ๋…ธ๋™์ž (Worker Of Steel)
  • ํฌ๋ง์ƒˆ (Bird Of Hope)
    โ€œํ†ต์ผ์„ธ์ƒ ์‚ด๊ณ ํŒŒ๋ผโ€ (I Wish For A Unified World)
  • ๋ฐ•์ข…ํ™” (Park Jong-Hwa)
    โ€œํŒŒ๋ž‘์ƒˆโ€ (Parangsae)
  • ์œค๋ฏผ์„๊ณผ ํ•จ๊ป˜ํ•˜๋Š” ๋ช‡๊ฐ€์ง€์˜ ์‹คํ—˜ (A Few Experiments With Yun Min-Seok )
    โ€œ๋™๋ฐฑ ํ”ผ๋Š” ๋‚ โ€ (The Day The Camellia Blooms)
  • ๋…ธ๋ž˜๋ฅผ ์ฐพ๋Š” ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค (People Looking For Songs)
    ๊ทธ๋‚ ์ด ์˜ค๋ฉด (When That Day Comes)
  • ๋ฌธ์ตํ™˜, ๋ฅ˜ํ˜•์„ , ๊น€์šฉ์šฐ (Mun Ik-Hwan, Ryu Hyeong-Seon, Kim Yong-U)
    โ€œ๋น„๋ฌด์žฅ์ง€๋Œ€โ€ (DMZ)
  • ๊น€๊ด‘์„ (Kim Kwang-Seok)
    ํƒ€๋Š” ๋ชฉ๋งˆ๋ฆ„์œผ๋กœ (With Burning Thirst)