ABSTRACT
Broadcasting media is an essential condition of the creation, distribution, and consumption of modern popular music. Today, we can hardly imagine modern popular music without the role of broadcasting media, since our experiences of popular music in everyday life is largely defined by it (Frith 2004). In contemporary history, broadcasting media has greatly influenced the formation and transformation of popular music in Korea. Broadcasting media had mediated ways in which popular music circulated, and in this way it had influenced the production and consumption of popular music in various ways.
