There are various types of obscure and wierd folk, funk, rock and garage bands - they often are united under one style of PR.
Psychedelic rock evolved in the 60s as an offshoot of the rock and roll movement combining elements of rock, reggae, and other diverse elements. Involving the use of mind altering drugs like cannabis, mescaline, psilocybin, and especially LSD, psychedelic rock broke with traditional rock and laid the roots for psychedelic metal and experimental rock genres.
In the USA bands like the Vanilla Fudge, Grateful Dead, and Jefferson Airplane lead the way for later bands like 13th Floor Elevators, Bubble Puppy, and Third Bardo to name a few. A few years later The Who and The Beatles picked up on the psychedelic movement with tunes like Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds and Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band to name a few but were not technically classified as psychedelic rock. Cream and Pink Floyd embraced psychedelic music fully becoming two of the first truly psychedelic band.
More recently band Kula Shaker released an album influenced by Indian music and psychedelic rock called Peasants Pigs and Astronauts. English band Anomie are part of a new genre of garage psychedelia which is becoming popular. Ambient and trance music owes a great debt to this genre as does psychedelic metal of bands like Masters of Reality, Kyuss and Queens of the Stone Age.
Psychedelic rock - which had already revolutionized fashion, poster art, and live performance - continued to grow after the 1960s, influencing a host of (which, along with Jimi Hendrix, proved to be a key connection between black funk and psychedelia). Moreover, psychedelic rock's influence was evident in later genres, from punk to trip-hop to acid-house dance.
San Francisco in the late 1960s was a haven for the new hippies who were seeking the meaning of life, acid, and the counterculture.
The psychedelic experience inspired a lot of improvisational music, or jamming, that gave rock an entirely new dimension for expression. The lyrics drifted to new subjects beyond boy-meets-girl and fast-car, tending more to absurd descriptions of the inward journey of the mind, or the counterculture lifestyle. Psychedelic experiences suggested more use of feedback and distortion, more sound effects, and in some cases more and in others less orchestration. Some bands were committed to the lifestyle as well as to playing while stoned. All bands were challenged by this new mood of innovation.
San Ul Rim released their first album in 1977. On their early albums between 1977-1979 (1st~3rd), we can surely recognize the Psychedelic sounds especially in the long songs like"A-Ni Beol-Seo (It's already!)","A-Ma Neut-Eun Yo-Reum-I-Eot-Eul-Ggeo-Ya (Maybe it was a late summer),"Nae Ma-Eum-E Joo-Dan-Eul Ggal-go (The carpet on my mind), Geu-Dae-Neun I-Mi Na(You are already me). 
Like many people said already of the San Ul Rim, they seem to be "fallen from the sky". They had no great relations to the general genealogy of Korean rock music. But in the early days of so-called "Group sound Era", there existed some substances that we could call "Psychedelic".
An example. Shin Joong-Hyun had released some albums which subtitled as "Psychedelic sound" and no matter what they were titled officially-had shown psychedelic sound.
So, Korean psychedelic scene had Shin Joong-Hyun, who had a so called Korean Rock god-father family tree like the San Ul Rim family and Key boys family, Key brothers (Kim Hong-Tak and Yoon Hang-Gi).
There are also a number of great psychedelic bands in Early 80's in Korea. These bands are Little Giant, Magma, Mu-Dang. Especially you can hear strong fuzz guitar sounds in Little Giant's second album and the only Magma album. I think that Mu-Dang is a Koreanized rock music.
Within the Korean folk scene, it's good to check out the records from Kim Doo Soo, Han Dae-Soo, Yang Hee-Eun.
Han Dae Soo is a called the Korean Bob Dylan, his first and second album is a great folk music. Kim Doo Soo is a great Korean acid folk artist and his all records (1st~4th) are best Korean acid folk music, this acid folk means to only mental meaning and no marijuana.
Yang Hee-Eun is a called the Korean Joan Baez, especially her second album is a lovely female voice and pastoral folk music with a little Jazz approach. The record is a best of best korean female folk music in 1970th Korea.
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