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Trends and Problems in a study on &lt;sijipsari norae&gt;. Dongnam Journal of Korean Language &amp; Literature 24. The purpose of this study is to broaden the range of researching &lt;sijipsari norae&gt; that has been roughly regarded as belonging to epic folk songs. For the purpose, this researcher tried to re-classify some songs that have been collectively classified as &lt;sijipsari norae&gt;, and analyze and take a new view on previous studies and findings about those songs.<BR>Many researchers have been continuously paying attention to &lt;sijipsari norae&gt;, already classified as a sub-style of epic folk song, since Cho Dong Il&quot;s A Study on Epic Folk Songs . There have been enough discussions about researching folk song as a whole. But there have been few discussions about the trends and new directions of researching &lt;sijipsari norae&gt; only.<BR>Assuming that partial researchers are prerequisite for a comprehensive research, &lt;sijipsari norae&gt; is still less comprehensively understood. Previous studies about &lt;sijipsari norae&gt; have in most cases defined the work as a sub-style of epic folk song. Yet, there are stopless debates over which genre the above song belongs to. In a similar vein, there have been lots of studies in which whether lyric or epic, all folk songs collectively classified as &lt;sijipsari norae&gt; were equally treated. In this study, the researcher attempted to reconsider already defined conceptual relationships between &quot;epic folk song&quot; and &lt;sijipsari norae&gt; prior to investigating current trends of researching the latter. Folk songs can be classified into three sub-genres, lyric, epic and didactic folk songs according to their styles and into another threes, folk songs for labor, rite and amusement according to their functions. Thus &quot;epic folk song&quot; is a sort of genre itself. Again, &lt;sijipsari norae&gt; has been classified as epic folk song. B t in fact, &lt;sijipsari norae&gt; should be classified based on its attributes, not based on genres as classified above. In other words, &lt;sijipsari norae&gt; can&quot;t be always regarded as one of epic folk songs because it is both lyric and epic. Of course, this study does not intend to re-establish existing normal theories of genre. Instead, the study points out that out of folk songs collectively titled &lt;sijipsari norae&gt;, some are more lyric and others are more epic, so out of the folk songs, those already classified as &quot;epic folk song&quot; need to be reclassified.<BR>This study was developed in the following procedure. First, the researcher investigated the previous trends and findings of researching &lt;sijipsari norae&gt; <BR>Second, the researcher examined correlations between the above genres of &lt;sijipsari norae&gt; and narrations whose motive is same as that of the folk song, determining differences among those narrations in accordance with those genres. <BR>Third, the researcher collected and recorded actual works of &lt;sijipsari norae&gt; and investigated in detail and individually those works and their informants&quot; lives, finding women&quot;s consciousness common in the works.