Sacheon Madogalbanga Song

Mado Galbangasori is a work song sung while dyeing gizzard-shad fishing nets with gal-mul, a natural dye traditionally used to treat nets, and it is performed together with the song for hauling in the gizzard-shad nets. It has valuable cultural significance in that a fishing labour song, difficult to hand down, has been transmitted intact, and it is further valuable in that, by recreating the way of life of a fishing village, it displays a spirit of cooperation and harmony, which carries the significance of a living transmission of traditional culture into the present. Mado Galbangasori is a distinctive work song that has been handed down for a long time together with gizzard-shad fishing, the main means of livelihood for the people of Mado Island. The period of its origin is unknown, but the sorrows and joys of their lives are well expressed in the melody and lyrics of the song, and it has value as traditional culture, having been well preserved. Gizzard-shad fishing itself remains unchanged from the past to the present, but as the method of catching gizzard shad has become modernised and communal village work is no longer needed for it, this work song will inevitably disappear unless it is protected as cultural heritage, and so efforts must be made to preserve it.

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Where it is

Region

Sacheon, Gyeongnam

Designation

Provincial Intangible Heritage · 시도무형유산