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.