Singer Song Ga-in expressed his anger over the controversy over the reduction of Korean traditional music education.
Song Ga-in, along with the Event poster of the former All states Cultural Festival, said on the 10th, "I hope that the officials of the Ministry of Education will make a clearer judgment that we should not touch our history and tradition."
“If we make our country, ours, and our chance to learn a little bit of traditional music disappear, what should our students learn and grow up,” Song Ga-in said, “I am sad and angry that we talk about such nonsense issues.”
Song Ga-in's poster for Gong Yoo included a message that Korean classical musicians will gather on Teacher's Day on the 15th to rally and perform. It also included the names of Korean classical musicians who opposed the reduction of Korean classical music textbooks.
Song Ga-in criticized the issue with the point that most of the Korean traditional music terms and activities in the current textbooks are deleted, and that Korean traditional music education is reduced.
“The ‘music elements and conceptual system table’, which allows teachers to understand what elements and concepts should be taught, has also been deleted,” the All states Korean Traditional Music Education Council said in a statement on May 21. “There is a concern that the education of Korean traditional music in schools will be reduced altogether.”
“We are discussing and collecting various opinions to be a balanced curriculum, such as maintaining elements related to Korean traditional music in the current curriculum and adding new terms,” the Ministry of Education said on the 22nd of last month. “The contents of Korean traditional music are not deleted or reduced in the revised music curriculum and music textbooks in 2022.”
The Korean traditional music industry is still protesting this, as it is concerned that if the system table containing the concept of Korean traditional music disappears, the unique elements and concepts will collapse and the whole reduction of Korean traditional music education will be continued.
It is also pointed out that it is difficult to grasp the contents of Korean traditional music if the achievement standards related to Korean traditional music are excluded because the textbook writers are the majority of the Western music majors.
Song Ga-in is a Singer from Korean classical music and has been vocal in various Korean traditional music related Events.
On the 22nd of last month, he also wrote an article on the Instagram about the controversy over the reduction of Korean traditional music textbooks, saying, "It is absolutely impossible."