Browsing in the Hankyoreh yesterday I came across some charming pictures of Queen Yuna. This particular one, with the famous yellow logo on the CD cover …
… got me googling for Deutsche Grammophon compilations of Kim’s backing tracks. And I came across this:
Scrolling down to the tracklist I find that the label hasn’t been too careful in its translation of the Korean track names back into English:
You can understand how the first happened, as Fledermaus = Bat. But how does “Ascending”, translated into Korean and back, become “of Emergency”?
The lark out of the cage flew away high into the sky … emergency … kkk. V weird
No wonder she’s pulling that face! Still, a lovely collection especially since it has Barber’s famous ‘Present for Adagio’ ㅋㅋㅋ
Haha: ascending and emergency are homophones in Korean 😉 — pisang 비상
Ah, thanks for that, Hazel