Despite of the accumulation of discussions, We still can’t confirm the consistent identity of the popular art. Up to recently, Most researchers have depended on the inductive analysis of the concrete works to find the identity of the popular art. But now we need to check carefully if the term ‘popular art’ has any problems or not. ‘popular art’ as a term has two kinds of abstract contradictions in its concept and the ambiguity of referent. The first contradiction is that the concept of the past connoted in this word is not valid any longer in these days. And the second is that the word has implied contradiction from the first. And because of the term means an abstract notion, that can not represent any substance entirely. That is also a limitation of the ‘popular art’ as a term. In addition, it is a problem of this term that the identities of the ‘masses’ changes a lot of at latest. With researching these points, this study was able to show how incongruent the term ‘popular art’ is nowadays. (Daeduk College)