The genre was then called Gukmingayo (國民歌謠) or Gajeonggayo (家庭歌謠, songs that can be safely sung in their homes with families).
In 1949. the government received applications of new gukmingayos through the "Propaganda strategy committee" which was administered under the Bureau of Public Information(공보처).Early examples of the genre was "Let's go to the workplace(일터로가자)" and "The song of saving money(저축의 노래)".
[4] In 1976, through the "patriotic song recommendation plan" by the performance ethics committee, lot of movements that promote the ideologies of then leader Park Chunghee was promoted, and there was a song called "My fatherland" composed and written by the president Park Chunghee himself.
[2] From the late 1980s, the genre lost popularity as it often functioned as a promotion of then dictatorship governments in the name of public interests.
After the 1988 Seoul Olympics and the democratization of South Korea after the fall of the Dictatorship, singing geonjeongayos began to be not required by law to be in an album.