A study of Characteristic of Namdae ByeolsinGut of the East Coast in South Korea

This article is mainly about the oicotype. The Gut that is performed in the east coast from Goseong, Gangwon-do to Busan, Gyeongsangnam-do is generally referred to as ‘East Coast-Gut’. Among the Guts of that region, a village Gut named ByeolsinGut is designated as an important intangible cultural heritage in Korea. However, East Coast-Gut differs by regions that are more subdivided. The place where it is more particularly differentiated is the southern area of the east coast like Ulsan and Busan. The east coast shamans often call it as ‘Namdae (南帶, south area)’. With the replacement of transmitters, however, there have been a lot of changes so far. Yet, the Gutgeori of ByeolsinGut has not been changed but is being conducted as it was, and the aspects of it are differentiated from those in the northern or central area of the east coast.Namdae ByeolsinGut of the east coast has two great differences from that of the northern-central area. First, it secures a lot of Gutgeori which the northern-central area does not have. It includes GamangGut, JeseokGut,BuinGut, HwangjeGut, DaewangGut, DaesinGut, or SeonsaengGut. Because advanced researches only focused on the northern-central area and hardly explored the meaning of those Gut, this article looks into the meaning of Gutgeori which only Namdae ByeolsinGut has.The second characteristic of Namdae ByeolsinGut of the east coast can be found in the structuralization of Gut. It consists of GyeopGut (double Gut)including NaedangGut and OedangGut. This study is going to examine the criteria to distinguish Naedang from Oedang and also the aspects of how any Gut is classified into each of those.