Although our current students are part of the hip-hop generation, we can find hardly any interest in or research relating hip-hop to the subject of Korean. Accordingly, this study will use hip-hop as material for class choice and design a class in stepwise fashion so that undergraduates can thereby create modern poetry more easily.
First of all, learners made poetry notes so as to write about their everyday experiences, thoughts, and feelings. Next, undergraduates went through the steps of writing creative poems using their own poetic ideas. In this process, learners provided with general subject matter for modern poetry mostly produced creative lyrical poems. Meanwhile, those provided with hip-hop rap materials mostly produced not general lyric poems but anti-lyrical creative poems. This is differentiated from the creation of modern poetry using general subject matters for modern poetry and may be attributed to the characteristics of hip hop as drawing authenticity from an ego grounded on a resistant or critical consciousness.
Next, with the creative poems they had written before, they go through the steps of revising and polishing them based on a variety of poetic elements. One of the most prominent characteristics of hip-hop materials used in creating modern poetry is the rhyme. Therefore, learners compared the rhyme and flow of hip-hop materials with those of modern poetry and properly applied what they had learned, including metrical elements, to their polishing process.
This author has observed how undergraduates changed their works step by step. According to the results of this study, the creative works of modern poetry using hip-hop materials seem to be superior to those using general subject matters for modern poetry. Also, regarding the rhyme, it could be a significant aid to creative education due to its similarities with modern poetry.