THE MUSIC OF SOUTH KOREA

It won't be an overstatement to say that music is the most apt language of nostalgia. So many times, we hear a particular music or a song and we get overwhelmed with memories ....of the moments...the people....the successes....the frustrations...and what not.

None of my travel moments are complete without getting a feel of the native music of any place I get to visit. To ensure that someday, when life allows me more opportunities to sit back and relax, I can get to feel the places once again...through the nostalgia of their music.

A little less than two decades back, a younger version of me spent four consecutive years in South Korea...a period when the Google was still new...Facebook was non existent...and Orkut was just about to get trendy. Beyond India, this is the longest, I have stayed in one single country till date. And this was also my first glimpse to life outside India. I was two years post my teens when destiny gifted one of her most precious gifts....a four year period in this beautiful country...which was so similar to mine...and yet so different. Some amazing people who literally shaped me into what I am today...some defining moments which paved my future and infinite memories wrapped in layers of conscious (and subconscious) mind.

I am sure my subconscious has preserved a lot from this period of my life...when I was busy in the search of the future. And one way to connect to those moments is through this music which was almost my closest companion those days.

Thanks to Youtube, so many variations are available so easily now...just search for Sanjo....Pansori...Arirang....and chose the music which connects with you the most.

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