Study of Comparative Lyrics for Joy and Sad Emotions in Korean Popular Songs

Abstract

As popular music grows, lyrics are taking a more important part of the pop music. In the thesis suggests that to prove that each can I maximize based on the lyrics' emotions, the study compares between a sense of cheerful and sad songs. For this reason, many emotional words were extracted by various word expressions in the cheerful songs and limited expressions of grief sensibilities were shown through relatively small amount of emotional words in the sorrowful songs.