This study is focused on the activities of various “folk song communities” inherited from the past, and on some aspects and characteristics of folk song communities formed in modern times. Research on the subject shows that modern folk song communities exhibit clear differences from those of the past in terms of subject matter, ideology and spatial expansion. As for subjectmatter, modern folk song communities played a leading role in revealing the universal values of mankind, such as the liberation of mankind from the shackles of suppression and the status system, as well as the realizationof equality in terms of economy and politics, that had been suppressed in past folk song communities. They also played a key role in the efforts to create a human-centered, equal society. Therefore, folk song communities are regarded as pioneers that moved the age forward before all others. They have been able to display cultural properties of the future that had been contained in traditional folk culture, helping recognize folk culture as a main force in drawing the culture of our future.