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Ewha women's institution as technical college established in 1925 started with first music department in Korea. This department was the only college institution in modern Korea offering western music training. The aim of this paper is to investigate the actual condition of this department and to give consideration to the role of this focusing on historical material 'Ewha college catalogue (1937)'. Education in the musical department contains both basic theory and practical skill of music. More than half of students were from north part of Korean peninsula and many of them were Christian. Graduates of this department could get qualifications to be a teacher at private high school. So this department opened the doors for Korean to play an important role at musical education. Especially graduates from music department become teachers twice as many as the graduates from other departments such as literature and home economics. I guess this was because there were no other music departments in Korea at that time. At the beginning, most of teachers of Ewha college were American missionaries and graduates from Ewha college who had studied in US. But after the late of 1930, graduates who had studied in Japan were employed. This meant that route to accept western music was changed. Ewha college's music department gave a good environment for Korean students to study musical expertise and played important role as pioneer. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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