Banmal Song

Recently fav song... How sweet...

Yongseo couple to be real!!!

There is a duet version with Seohyun which they create the youtube account themselves and upload it. The solo version sound like proposing to Seohyun;')

Tell a bit story for those who dont know.. Korean have 敬语 n 非敬语. Banmal is the latter. Seohyun is well-taught that she never talk to elder people in banmal. But, Yonghwa hopes she can talk with him in banmal to show they really close..

So, after few months 'get married' with seohyun, he composed this song. The duet version is requested by the show..

Yongseo: 1 2 3 Hello (Korean English Japanese Mandarin Thai). We are Yongseo couple’s…
Y: I’m Yong
S: I’m Seo
Y: What have we prepared today, Hyun?
S: Today we prepared a couple song that we, the Yongseo couple, wrote personally, called the ‘Banmal Song’.
Y: It’s a nice song and we hope everyone will enjoy it. We will perform right now.

Verse 1

S: It’s so hard for me to say ‘thanks’ or ‘bye’ to you [NOTE: these are informal words in Korean.]
All I can say is “thank you” or “thanks so much” [NOTE: these are formal words in Korean.]
Everything is brand new to me, so I’m a little unsure
How should I say it? It’s still really awkward
Even today, I worry about it

Chorus

YS: hopefully we can be a banmal relationship
though still unnatural
Y: rather than saying “gomawoyo”
let me hear more intimate words

Interlude

S: You know what, Yong?
Y: What?
S: Do you really want to hear banmal from me?
Y: Ah… it will be good if I’m able to.
S: But you know that banmal is hard for me right?
Y: Why is it hard?
S: Err… I really tried very hard… It’s really difficult. How much do you want to hear me speak banmal?
Y: A lot.

Verse 2

Y: When we met for the first time
Even our smiles were shy
After today we should be closer to each other
I’m both excited and looking forward to it.

Chorus

YS: hopefully we can be a banmal relationship
though still unnatural
Y: rather than saying “gomawoyo”
let me hear more intimate words

YS: we can have a banmal relationship
one step at a time, slowly walk closer
Y: look at me in the eye
can you tell me
YS: “I love you”

S: I understand, Yong. (in banmal)
Y: Me too.