Abstract

This study is intended to investigate Korean's affection reflected in Korean popular song's lyrics, The materials of this study were 749 Korean pop songs from 1946 to 1996, There is two implied questions on this study as follows: first, 'what is the most frequent vocabulary used in Korean pop songs lyrics)' and 'what is the main theme of Korean pop songs?' Second, does it show any distinctive feature as the times are changing? In order to solve these questions, first, the frequency of each word used in Korean pop song's lyrics was computed and then the theme of those song was classified and categorized, And contents analysis by behavioral and affectional type was administered on main theme, The finding showed that there were high frequent vocabularies in Korean pop song's lyrics and 'the love and separation between man and woman' was the main theme of Korean pop songs, Negative affection related words were found more frequently than positive affection related words, Negative affection was caused by unwanted, unsuccessful, unfinished and uncompleted consequence like a separation or parting. The marked behavioral and affectional type was 'secondary control or passive acceptance of reality' type and self-reproaching affection. But, as the changing of the times, it appeared that primary control and reproaching affection type was increased.