This paper is intended to examine the Pyongmin Gasa (The Ode of
the Commoners) appeared in thr age of reform in the late Choson
Dynasty, With Kapmin-ga, Nochirnear-ga, Guchang-ga and Hapgang-
chung-ga, especially which themes and contents are a cri...
This paper is intended to examine the Pyongmin Gasa (The Ode of
the Commoners) appeared in thr age of reform in the late Choson
Dynasty, With Kapmin-ga, Nochirnear-ga, Guchang-ga and Hapgang-
chung-ga, especially which themes and contents are a critical toward
reality, focused on the group of its writers, paper's topic is surveyed,
Until now, it is a general tendenct that the writers of Pyongmin
Gasa are commoners and the low classes (the humble). But, when
analyzing the Pyongmin Gasa and scrutinizing the consciousness of
the writers appeared in its works, it is possible to say that the group
of Pyongmin Gasa's writers may be Yangban (the high classes) who
has a regular knowledge or the middle classes (semi-Yangban).
Consequently, it is certain that the ruind Yangban and the middle
classes written the Pyongmin Gasa were conconsidered as a prize by
social status in the late Choson Dynasty. So, it may be safely affirmed
that the pyongmin Gasa is a valuable literature ofpoetry since it
played a important part reform the society of late Choson Dynasty.