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Title: 사랑의 진실 (Love’s Truth) | Album: 사랑의 진실 (Love’s Truth) | Artist: Astro Bits ft. 정인 (Jung In) | Year: 2011 | Label: Mirror Ball Music.
This time, I had to dig, and dig for some artist information. One could say that the release of the fuzzy track 사랑의 진실 (Love’s Truth) with a retro look and feel, might be a misfit between a discography ranging from electro-pop to chill out/dance.
After working as a bassist for the band ‘Paper Mode’ in the early 90s, the South-Korean producer Astro Bits (Kim Bum Soo) plunged into the Tokyo acid jazz scene where he briefly collaborated with the avant-garde Japanese composer Ryuichi Sakamoto.
Unlike most languages in East Asia, Korean is a phonetic language read left to right. For example the consonants s (ㅅ), t (ㅌ) or the vowels a (ㅏ), i (ㅣ) could be stacked on top of each-other like Lego blocks. Somehow, most rendering support systems are occasionally stuck with deciphering Hangul. As an outcome, this foreign script tends to be transformed into a chaos of rectangular boxes, and punctuations marks. So, any time this message appears:
“Due to the limitations of the supported zip file format, the following file(s) had to be renamed”
I quietly weep, for several reasons. Nothing is more time-consuming than correcting files which were automatically transformed into…file1.mp3, file 2.mp3 or even worser… ƒnƒCEƒtƒ@ƒCEƒZƒbƒg!
My credit goes out to the bloggers ✿Chokollit, and popgasa who somehow were able to romanize the original lyrics. Well, here we go!
jeo meolli tteonagan nae nim-eun oneuldo oji anhne Far gone my love has not come today michin deut medallin iyudo ijeneun al su omne I now know why but must move on hanbeon jun nae mam-eun nimcheoleom yeong-wonhi sarajyonne Gone forever once I gave my heart to you geuliun eolguldo ijeneun gieog-i naji anhne Now I can’t even remember anymore eotteohge ileol suga issnayo? How could you let this happen? geu gilgo gin sigandeul-eul iroke gidaryonneunde I’ve waited for such a long longtime so gyolguk iron gon-gayo? Eventually this? mueos-i iyuyeossnayo? What was your reason? yeong-wonhal kkora hagoseon mueos-eul eodge dwaessnayo? You said forever, but what did you gain? nunmuldo naji anhneyo Tears won’t fall anymore.________________________________________________________________________________
Sources
http://ysh15481.tistory.com/m/428
✿Chokollit. (2011, November 11). [HANGUL+ROMANIZATION] ASTRO BITS (아스트로비츠) FT. JUNG IN (정인) – LOVE’S TRUTH (사랑의 진실) LYRIC. Retrieved 2012, from http://chacha-31.blogspot.nl/2011/11/hangulromanization-astro-bits-ft-jung.html?m=1
Astro Bits (아스트로 비츠) – The Truth of Love (사랑의 진실 Feat. Jung In). Retrieved, from http://popgasa.blogspot.nl/2011/11/astro-bits-truth-of-love-feat-jung-in.html?m=1
