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"Aegukka" (Chosŏn'gŭl: 애국가), officially translated as "Patriotic Song", [2] is the national anthem of North Korea. It was composed in 1945 as a patriotic song celebrating independence from Japanese occupation and was adopted as the state anthem in 1947.
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After the division of Korea in 1945 and the establishment of North Korea in 1948, revolutionary song-writing traditions were channeled into support for the state, eventually becoming a style of patriotic song called taejung kayo (대중가요) in the 1980s [6] combining classical Western symphonic music, the Soviet socialist realism style, and Korean traditional musical forms. [7]
Music video features North Koreans of different backgrounds belting out lines such as: ‘Let’s brag about Kim Jong-un, a friendly father’
North Korea has released a new song praising leader Kim Jong Un for being a "friendly father" and a "great leader", in a move that appears to be part of a propaganda drive to enhance his standing ...
As a part of an ongoing cult of personality, the song praising Kim Il Sung, North Korea's "Eternal President", who died in 1994, is still widely played in the country. It is often considered to be the de facto national anthem in North Korea. The song is a four-square march. It features paired two bar phrases in an A-B-A form, [1] with dotted ...
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" Aegukga" (Korean: 애국가; Hanja: 愛國歌), often translated as "The Patriotic Song", is the national anthem of South Korea. It was adopted in 1948, the year the country's government was founded.