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Research on the Area Selection Criteria that Korean Popular Music Creative Class Chooses as Their Playground - Focused on Hongdae Indie Music Scene -

Yang, In Hwa 1

1한국외국어대학교

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ABSTRACT

It has been almost 20 years that Hongdae becomes the center-place in Korean popular music. Hongdae has been functioning as the central spot of Indie Music in many years, while it is hard to find any other place like Hongdae historically because hot places of music have all along been kept changing in Seoul. Music creative class is the group that creates economic wealth from their creative activities. This paper aims to analyse the reasons why Indie Music Creative class has chosen Hongdae area as their play-ground. Areas where creative classes choose have its own characters: Those areas can express their personality, and it has openness and diversity. In this regard, infrastructure, geography, accumulated sentiment, and atmosphere are the reasons why the popular music creative class continuously flow into Hongdae. On the contrary, there might be reasons why they cannot leave out from Hongdae as they may not have many choices to select other places as their playground. Creative class have been attached to Hongdae with memories and opinions. Consequently, indie music creative class develops Hongdae as the music center where they live and perform. This reproduces an image of Hongdae as the music center-point simultaneously.

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