It was 18th century when some important works of the hungarian transmitted literature were collected and recorded. In this period, Hungarian writers as well as the other europeans, had concentrated their concerns to the national tradition and characteristics, and naturally they contacted with the genre which had been transmitted from their ancestors. it was well known that the starting point of the trend on all europe was the publishing the Grimm brothers\' fairly tale, Kinder und Haumärchen in 1812. Since then many hungarian researcher had discovered and written down the text of the hungarian folklore and later they founded the Hungarian folklore association in Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Hungarian transmitted literature can be divided in 4 genres. -Transmitted poetry: folk song, ballade -Transmitted prose: myth, legend, folk tale -Transmitted drama: festival drama, religious drama, work drama -Transmitted short sentence: episode, comedy, proverb and riddle In the article, you can read some representative works and have the explanation of the specialities of the each genre. Transmitted poetry, for example, is the popular form in usual time. People sing a folk song about love, beauty and life. The styles of the songs are very simple, because the same text used to be repeated. Ballade is longer than folk song. In ballade, we can read the famous historical accident and conflict between generations. The populist theme is the love that could not be tolerated and admitted. Transmitted prose contains the old time customs and habits. The myth shows us the hungarian idea of the god. The legend deal with the lives of the saints and their mystical change. Folk tale was divided into many small themes, but it has a common structure which has similar beginning and closing. The hero is always the third, the youngest and the smallest child. But he achieves the most difficult work and takes the prize. Transmitted drama is active and its text can be changed with the condition of the theatre. It is because the drama had not a formal written text. Besides the actors were not professional. Even the audience could be a actor or actress during operation. Even though the theaters were very delightful and full of audiences\' fever. The drama was consist of humor, sexual parodies and severe critics to the priest and nobel class. Also people often used the transmitted short sentences to teach somebody. The texts were very short and instructive to do something or not. In conclusion, the hungarian transmitted literature is the great treasure, in which we can discover the hungarian\'s original view for the universe and the world. The purpose of this article is to provide the hungarian folklore\'s characteristic to korean folklorist. They can compare Hungarian folklore to the korean one in a comparative view.