The Modernization of East Asia and the Formation and Development of Popular Music Market

When the essence of music is fundamentally dismantled from its roots, this can lead to more fundamental insights. To this end, we can take the cultural phenomenological research found in the trajectory of all human history to a new level. Korean pop music has grown by actively responding to new demands such as ‘popularization’, ‘modernization’, and ‘the formation of a commercialization assumption and consumption concept of culture’. Human intellectual ability lies in grasping information from the outside and helping emotional intelligence work. Looking at a more comprehensive concept, it can be said that it refers to intellectual activity that understands the meaning of human beings when faced with new situations and finds a way to overcome them. This is because human lifestyle, which started in the past agricultural revolution, undergoes change (Nomadism -> settlement, 鼎廚) and at the same time meets the necessary and sufficient conditions of civilization (systematic religion, legal, morality, governance system, structure, etc.). I would like to explain this by setting a theoretical foundation in relation to ‘Alternative Modernization Theory’ and Adorno’s ‘Music-Sociology’.