To mark the 50th anniversary of Korea's long-running representative radio program "Yeoseong Sidae" (Women's Era), DJ Yang Hee-eun and a 50-member choir have come together.
On the 14th, MBC Radio's Yeoseong Sidae Yang Hee-eun, Kim Il-joong (abbreviated as Yeoseong Sidae) released a special commemorative recording to mark the program's 50th anniversary. The title is "To you who may be happy." The recording will be broadcast at the Yeoseong Sidae special showcase on the 15th.
This song is special in that it is a "collaborative composition" created together with listeners, beyond a simple commemorative recording. The listeners of Yeoseong Sidae, who affectionately call each other "Dangdangi," meaning people who stand tall before life's burdens, directly wrote "letters to myself" stories that became the source of the lyrics, and singer Harim was inspired by those letters to co-write the lyrics with the Dangdangi and composed the music.
The song features Yang Hee-eun, the DJ who has held her place for 26 of Yeoseong Sidae's 50 years and a representative singer of our era, another Yeoseong Sidae DJ Kim Il-joong, and the Manmyeong Chorale, a regular guest on Yeoseong Sidae that actively works for interfaith harmony (four clerics from Buddhism, Protestantism, Catholicism and Won Buddhism). Harim, who created the song, also added his voice directly to the recording. To commemorate the 50th anniversary, a total 50-member choir (the Dangdangi) joined the chorus to complete a majestic resonance.
Arrangement and directing were handled by Kim Hyun-bo of the band Second Month, recognized domestically and internationally for drama and film music, raising the musical completion.
The production team said, "The 50 years Yeoseong Sidae has walked is time spent together with listeners. This song was made to celebrate that journey and, above all, to offer the warm consolation that 'you are allowed to be happy.'"
[Photo] Provided by MBC.
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