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| Kim Min-ki, the song-writer |
This song 아침이슬, Morning Dew, is the musical symbol of the resistance against the military dictatorship in 1970s of South Korea, written and sung respectively by the two icons of the time. Kim Min-Ki (1951-2024) wrote this song in 1970 when he was freshman in the college and the singer Yang Hee-eun was freshman in 1971 at the time this song was released. It had already become the national anthem among the dissident students when this song was banned in 1975 under the Park Jeong-hee dictatorship. Four years later the Park dictatorship would see its demise with the sudden death of the President Park. However, South Korea would go under another military dictatorship and this song Morning Dew would play a big role in eventually putting an end to the dictatorship of four decades since the Rhee Syngman regime of 1948.
긴 밤 지새우고
풀잎마다 맺힌
진주보다 더 고운 아침이슬처럼
Like the morning
dew on the blade past the long night, finer than pearls
내 맘의 설움이 알알이 맺힐 때 아침 동산에 올라 작은 미소를 배운다
As the sorrow in my heart bead up one
after another I go up the morning hill and learn the little smile
태양은 묘지 위에 붉게 떠오르고 한낮에 찌는 더위는 나의 시련일지라
The sun rises red
on the graveyard the scorching heat of
the day is the trial for me
나 이제 가노라 저 거친 광야에
서러움 모두 버리고 나 이제 가노라
I set out now to the wilds over there leaving
all the sorrows behind I am setting out now
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Yang Hee-eun sings "Morning Dew" in a TV show in 1991, hosted by Noh Young-shim, who is playing the piano here, when the country was well on its way to the democracy. She was thirty nine.
The crowd of the political rally in November 2016 in Gwanghwamoon, Seoul, demanding the stepdown of President Park Geun-hye, sing the Morning Dew together with Yang Hee-eun on the open-air stage. Four months later Park was impeached by the Constitutional Court.
Also enjoy Morning Dew in flute by James Galway.
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