Korean drama, Culture,and Music

Monday, March 9, 2015

Lyn (린) - 시간을 거슬러 (The Moon That Embraces The Sun OST) [MV HD ENG SUB]

Lyn- 시간을 거슬러 (Back in Time) lyrics [Eng. | Rom. | Han.]

Now i want to introduce fusion traditional drama. The moon that embraces the sun is based on the novel of the same title, depicting the first love of a fictional king, set in the royal court of the Chosun Dynasty. It is a sad but beautiful love story of innocent young people, with the story developing around the conflicts and conspiracy of political powers vying for the throne against the king’s efforts for good politics.

a quality fusion historical drama enhanced by the strong acting of the main and supporting actors, its visual appeal for targeting young viewers.

So even the drama story is past time of the Chosun, it is more trendy than historical drama and focus on the love and romance.

SUMMARY OR THE DRAMA

Heo Yeon-u, the daughter of a high-ranking official, visits the royal court with her mother to see her brother attend a ceremony congratulating his first place in the state examination. By chance, she comes across crown prince Lee Hwon, and the two feel attracted by each other. Yeon-u’s brother, a person of high scholarship with a great personality, is ordered by the king to become the mentor of the crown prince. After learning that his mentor is Yeon-u’s brother, the crown prince uses him as a messenger of love.
Inside the palace, there is a conspiracy to have Yoon Bo-gyeong, the daughter of a family clan that is in opposition to the king, selected as the crown princess. Lee Hwon manages to have Yeon-u selected as the crown princess, but his great-grandmother Yoon asks shaman Nok-yeong to cast a spell on Yeon-u so that she becomes stricken with an unknown sickness. Yeon-u is taken to her home in her last remaining days of life, and passes away. Nok-yeong secretly visits Yeon-u’s father and tells him how to break the spells. Upon being resurrected from her grave, Yeon-u lives her life as a shaman by the name Wol, without any recollection of her past. Meanwhile, after Yeon-u’s believed death, Yoon Bo-gyeong becomes the crown princess and expands her political power in the court. Amid difficult political circumstances, Lee Hwon grows to be a cold and aloof king. As time passes, his yearning for Yeon-u only grows. One day, he sets out on an excursion to a hot spring. Seeing him in the royal procession from afar, Yeon-u (Wol) becomes confused as Hwon comes back vaguely in her memory.

As we know, the Chosun dynasty was ruled by Confucianism. However, at that time, it still coexistence with shamanism. In the shaman,people believe that the Sun symbolises a king. So there was only one man can be a sun which is the fate which only a king or a future king posses. However, two man were born during that time. so royal family members who wanted to lead future, they make conspiracy of political power by using shaman power.

HERE IS THE O.S.T

sung by Lyn , Back in time

LYRICS:

구름에 빛은 흐려지고

창가에 요란히 내리는

빗물소리 만큼 시린 기억들이

내 마음 붙잡고 있는데

갈수록 짙어져간

그리움에 잠겨

시간을 거슬러 갈순 없나요

그 때처럼만 그대 날 안아주면

괜찮을텐데 이젠

젖어든 빗길을 따라가

함께한 추억을 돌아봐

흐려진 빗물에 떠오른 그대가

내 눈물 속에서 차올라와

갈수록 짙어져간

그리움에 잠겨

시간을 거슬러 갈순 없나요

그 때처럼만 그대 날 안아주면

괜찮을텐데 이젠

흩어져가, 나와 있어주던 그 시간도 그 모습도

다시 그 때처럼만 그대를 안아서

시간을 거슬러 갈수 없나요

한번이라도 마지막일지라도

괜찮을텐데

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English Translation

As the light dims by the clouds

The memories that are as cold as the raindrops that are pounding down the window

Are grabbing onto my heart

*Sunk in the longing that gets heavier as time passes

Can I travel back time?

If you hug me just like you did before

Then I will be better

I follow the wet and rainy road

And look back to our memories

The blurry rain reminds me of you

And you fill up in my tears

*Repeat

It scatters – the times you were with me, the memories you were with me

Can I travel back time and hug you just like before?

Just for once, even if it’s last

I’ll be better

this drama is more focused on the love between king and girl. so music is also quite more trendy and contemporary. however, lyrics still has Han feeling which is lighter than historical drama o.s.t. and depicts not a sorrow of own's fate but a yearning for meeting lovers.

REFERENCE

Palais, James B. Politics and Policy in Traditional Korea, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1975.

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Sunday, March 8, 2015

조수미 If I Leave 나 가거든) MV (2001) (360p)

Jo Sumi - If I Leave (lyrics & english subtitles)

Drama,Empress Myungsung, is a historical drama, aired in 2001. The drama is about the life of the last Korean empress, Empress Myung Sung who married with King Gojong. it shows her biography in Chosun dynasty and tragic of her life.

BRIEF SUMMARY OF HISTORICAL ACCIDENT

Within a year of King Gojong's accession to the throne, representatives of Meiji Japan appeared in Seoul to demand that the Koreans pay tribute. They also requested to make treaty to get in to the Chosun easily. Behind back of their mind, by making treaty, they wanted to dominate the Chosun. However queen min kept making relationship with Russia to prevent japan's power. Japan's agents and officials in Seoul, well aware of Queen Min's appeals to Russia, countered by approaching her old nemesis and father-in-law, the Taewongun.

In the fall of 1895, Japanese ambassador to Korea Miura Goro formulated a plan to assassinate Queen Min, a plan that he named "Operation Fox Hunt." Early in the morning of October 8, 1895, a group of fifty Japanese and Korean assassins launched their assault on Gyeongbokgung Palace. They seized King Gojong, but did not harm him. Then, they attacked the queen consort's sleeping quarters, dragging out the queen and three or four of her attendants.

The assassins questioned the women to make sure that they had Queen Min, then slashed them with swords, stripped, and raped them. The Japanese displayed the queen's dead body to several other foreigners in the area, particularly the Russians, so that they knew their ally was dead, and then carried her body to the forest outside the palace walls. There, the assassins doused Queen Min's body with kerosene and burned it, scattering her ashes.

HERE IS THE O.S.T
If i Leave , Sumi Joo

Hangul ::

쓸쓸한 달빛 아래

내 그림자 하나 생기거든

그땐 말해볼까요 이 마음

들어나 주라고

문득 새벽을 알리는

그 바람 하나가 지나거든

그저 한숨쉬듯 물어볼까요,

나는 왜 살고 있는지

나 슬퍼도 살아야 하네

나 슬퍼서 살아야 하네

이 삶이 다 하고 나야 알텐데

내가 이 세상을 다녀간 그 이율

나 가고 기억하는 이

나 슬픔까지도 사랑했다 말해주길

흩어진 노을처럼

내 아픈 기억도 바래지면

그땐 웃어질까요 이 마음,

그리운 옛일로

저기 홀로선 별 하나

나의 외로움을 아는건지

차마 날 두고는 떠나지 못해

밤새 그 자리에만

나 슬퍼도 살아야 하네

나 슬퍼서 살아야 하네

이 삶이 다 하고 나야 알텐데

내가 이 세상을 다녀간 그 이율

나 가고 기억하는 이

내 슬픔까지도 사랑하길 우우~

부디 먼 훗날

나 가고 슬퍼하는 이

나 슬픔속에도 행복했다 믿게…

English ::

Undermeath the cold moonlight

If I can see my shadow lying there

shall I just tell you how I feel inside all thet is in my heart~

If the wind may blow on my heart,

telling me again thar I'm alone

should I just give out a sigh and ask myself

why do I have to live myself

though I may be sad I've got to live

because I feel so sad I must go on~

I know that I will understand when I'm gone

why I just had to live my life here in this world~

you were the only one for me~

though sorrow of my heart you loved me so~

please tell me so

like the evening light so falls

If all my memories just fade away

will I hold on to joy that's in my heart

oh,days of long a go~

wonder if the star in the sky

he know hoe I feel,my loneliness

maybe that is why he is there withme

he just there all through the night

though I may be sad I've got to live

because I feel so sad I must go on~

I know that I will understand when I'm gone

why I just had to live~ my life here in this world~

you were the only one for me~

though sorrow of my heart you loved me so~oh,

I hope some day

you were the one to cry for~

me that made me full of joy though I was sad~

my love

This song is sung by Sumi Joo. its lyrics shows sorrow of Myungsung's tragic life. This song also reflect Han, which is a condition marked by deep sorrow and a sense of incompleteness that can have fatal consequences. Drama and song shows the period of the Chosun went hard time before taken under by Japan.