The purpose of this study is to develop an idealistic scheme for the classification of Korean music. The ideal classification of Korean music should cover as much knowledge and materials of Korean music as possible. In this study, therefore, Korean music, Korean musicology and music materials were examined first as the backgrounds. Then classification schedules for Korean music including 679 Korean music of KDC were selected, and their expansion aspects and the problems were analyzed. The conditions and the possibility of developing an ideal classification schedule of Korean music were sought through reanalyzing the problems found in these existing classification schedules. As the result of this study a new classification schedule of Korean music was proposed.