Winter Rain

 

This song titled "Winter Rain" by Jo Dong-jin is the first song for this corner to introduce the modern Korean songs before the age of what we know as K-Pop these days. I dubbed the Korean popular music before the K-pop as Analog K-pop because the rise of the current K-pop came with the arrival of the worldwide digital environment. One of the distinctive differences between K-pop and the music before it is that the soloist music used to be the mainstream while the group performance has been representing K-pop, perhaps because of the importance of the visual factor in the media now with the capability to deliver full high-definition images.

I chose this song for the inaugural for this section, not because of the quality of the song for its obvious distinction in atmosphere from that of the K-pop, but because of its universal feel of the past everybody misses when every thing used to be slow but ran deep.  

This song was released in 1979. 

                          1. 겨울비 내리던 밤 그대 떠나갔네                      바람끝 닿지않는 밤과 낮 저편에 

                             That rainy winter night you left         to the other side of day and night where wind cannot reach 

                             내가 불빛속을 서둘러 밤길 달렸을 때             내 가슴 두드리던 아득한 그 종소리

                             Underneath the night lights I ran in hurry, beating my heart was the sound of the bell from afar 

                           2. 겨울비 내리던 밤 그대 떠나갔네                       방안 가득 하얗게 촛불 밝혀두고

                              That rainy winter night  you left                with the candles alight full of the room                                    

                               내가 하늘보며 천천히 밤길 걸었을 때                내 마른 이마위에 차거운 빗방울이

                              I walked slowly on the night street and looked at the sky, cold on my forehead dropped the rain

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It is known that the song was written at the news of his mother's passaway.

If you want to listen to the rock version of the song, you have the below by Jeon In-kwon.

Jeon was one of the admirers of Jo Dong-jin and was his personal friend.

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