Famous Korean Entertainment Show called “Infinity Challenge” always deal with new challenges. Recently, they intended to use Korea’s history in Korean popular music to attract teens and people in 20s.
Korean teenagers that live-in America said “Through this, I was able to know about Korean history easily and interested in current Korea’s situation”. Also “Korea’s pop music is evolving with high standards of consciousness which is very amazing”.
Korean Poet Dong-Ju Yun’s poem met with a rap and moved many people. One of the biggest issue in 2016 was the Pro-Japanese Koreans, distorted change of historical consciousness, Korean citizens began to notice the illegal and undemocratic society with a back-scratching relation between government and businesses. Korean poet, Dong-Ju Yun, became a nation’s eternal poet and soothed the hearts of young people in this period.
A cardiologist and translator, Myung-Ho Lee, translated Dong-Ju Yun’s poem text.
Traslator :Suk,Jae-yeun
(Korean Student Translation Team at Massachusetts State University)
별 헤는 밤:A night of counting stars.
By윤동주(尹東柱 1917∼1945)
English Translation by Myung-Ho Lee, MD, FACC
계절이 지나가는 하늘에는
가을로 가득 차 있습니다.
나는 아무 걱정도 없이
가을 속의 별들을 다 헬 듯합니다.
The sky of seasonal passage
Is filled with all autumn in the air.
Without any fearsome discourage,
I feel I’d count all these stars within autumn’s sphere.
가슴 속에 하나 둘 새겨지는 별을
이제 다 못 헤는 것은
쉬이 아침이 오는 까닭이요.
내일 밤이 남은 까닭이요.
아직 나의 청춘이 다하지 않은 까닭입니다.
For now, I wouldn’t yet count all these stars
Impressed deep down in my heart one by one,
For morning is approaching soon,
And I have morrow night reserved,
And my youth has not yet ended.
별 하나에 추억과
별 하나에 사랑과
별 하나에 쓸쓸함과
별 하나에 동경(憧憬)과
별 하나에 시와
별 하나에 어머니, 어머니
One star’s for memories,
One star’s for amour,
And one with emptiness,
One star’s for dreams and wonder,
One star’s to the poesies,
And one for mother, my mother.
어머니, 나는 별 하나에 아름다운 말 한 마디씩 불러 봅니다. 소학교 때
책상을 같이했던 아이들의 이름과, 패(佩), 경(鏡), 옥(玉), 이런 이국 소녀들의 이름과, 벌써 아기 어머니 된 계집애들의 이름과, 가난한 이웃 사람들의 이름과, 비둘기, 강아지, 토끼, 노새, 노루, ‘프랑시스 잼’, ‘라이너 마리아 릴케’, 이런 시인의 이름을 불러 봅니다.
Mother, I’m just reciting pretty words for each star. Names of buddies
shared desks at elementary school, and foreign girls’ names
like Pae, Kyung, Ok. Names of girls who are mothers already, and poor neighbors, pigeon, puppy, rabbit, mule, roe-deer, and poets like
‘Francis Jammmes’, and ‘Reiner Maria Rilke’.
이네들은 너무나 멀리 있습니다.
별이 아스라이 멀 듯이,
어머님,
그리고 당신은 멀리 북간도에 계십니다.
Ah, they are too far away
As those stars glimmering faintly from afar.
Far-flung in North Gando, you as well stay
At such a distance, dear Mother.
나는 무엇인지 그리워
이 많은 별빛이 내린 언덕 위에
내 이름자를 써 보고,
흙으로 덮어 버리었습니다.
Longing for some unknown,
On this hill of stars, lit by so many,
I wrote my own name down
And then with dirt buried it away.
딴은, 밤을 새워 우는 벌레는
부끄러운 이름을 슬퍼하는 까닭입니다.
To say, worms shall weep throughout the even’,
For they feel sorrows on their shameful names given.
그러나 겨울이 지나고 나의 별에도 봄이 오면,
무덤 위에 파란 잔디가 피어나듯이
내 이름자 묻힌 언덕 위에도,
자랑처럼 풀이 무성할 거외다.
Yet, when spring comes at last to my star after winter
As grasses open their verdant sprouts on the tomb,
On this hill with my name buried over,
As in pride, heavily grown grasses shall e’er come.
