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Diverse Korean Folk Music Tunes
Pyongyang, May 17 (KCNA) -- The Korean folk music is said to be characterized by diverse energetic tunes.

Therefore, the tunes of the Korean folk music come to be an important expression of national features and emotion.

Among them are jungmori tune producing soft and elegant impression, jajunmori tune giving cheerful and rhythmic feeling and jinyangjo tune tugging at heartstrings.

Those tunes play a role of accompanying main melodies to promote their colors and are mainly executed by percussion instruments like Janggu and drum.

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