1. Which of the following is NOT true about Korean Popular Music during the Colonial Period?
(A) Yun Sim-dok’s “Hymn to Death” (1926) lifted its melody from Iosif Ivanovici’s “Waves of the Danube” (1880).
(B) Western popular music including American Jazz and French Chanson was introduced to Korean soundscape during the Colonial Period.
(C) Choral songs were introduced as the mixture of American hymns, European anthems, Western folksongs, and Ja panese choral music.
(D) Trot songs were not the most popular to Korean audiences during the Colonial Period.
2. Which of the following is NOT true about Korean films during the Colonial Period?
(A) Crossroads of Youth remains as the oldest Korean film available for screening nowadays.
(B) Byunsa (the narrator) played the key role in the screening of films during the Colonial Period, but they disappeared from the Korean cinescape after Korea’s liberation from the Japanese Empire in 1945.
(C) The main actress SHIN Il-Sun in Arirang also starred in Crossroads of Youth.
(D) Arirang was recorded as the first Korean feature film in the history of Korean cinema.
3. Which of the following songs was NOT published during the Colonial Period?
(A) Han Bok-nam, “A Gentleman of Green Bean Pancake”
(B) Nam In-su, “Farewell in Busan Station”
(C) Yi Aerisu“, Remains of Hwangsong Castle”
(D) Kim Chun-ae, “Pongsonhwa”(Impatiens)
4. Which of the following films was released during the 1950s in South Korea?
(A) Love Me Once Again
(B) The Road to Sampo
(C) Madame Freedom
(D) Break up the Chain
5. Which of the following is NOT true about Lee Man-Hee’s film A Day Off?
(A) The film deals with the tragic fate of a single woman who had a child by her love affair with a married man.
(B) The film portrays loneliness and despair in the cityscape of Seoul in the 1960s.
(C) The film’s mise-en-scene functions as a medium to express both psychological status of characters and social cha nges of Seoul during the 1960s.
(D) The film was banned by the governmental committee of censorship and could not be released when it was made in 1968.
6. Which of the following is NOT correct for Lee Man-hee’s film Break up the Chain?
(A) It was a film of Manchurian Western genre.
(B) It was remade to Kim Ji-woon’s action film The Good, the Bad, and the Weird in 2008.
(C) It was produced in collaboration with Chinese film productions.
(D) It was a filmic adaptation of Sergio Leone’s The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly.
