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- Hanguk-eumak can be divided into the following two categories: one is the traditional music, called gugak (`national music`), transmitted for centuries; and the other is newly-composed music, called changjak gugak (`newly-composed national music`) which has been developed by the influence of Western music, although performed with traditional musical instruments.
- One of the representative Korean musical genres, samul nori (percussion quartet) is not a traditional musical genre but was created for stage music in 1978. In this sense, samul nori can be included in the newly-composed music.

