Trot: The sad soundtrack of colonial Korea is back – but this time its different
In Baek Nyeonseol’s 1940 classic The Sorrow of a Traveler, for example, the lyrics translate to: “It has been half a lifetime, over 10 years, walking barefoot in a foreign land; sorrow settles deep in this man’s heart; when twilight falls, I miss my hometown; calling for dreams with tears, I look for it.”
In Baek Nyeonseol’s 1940 classic The Sorrow of a Traveler, for example, the lyrics translate to: “It has been half a lifetime, over 10 years, walking barefoot in a foreign land; sorrow settles deep in this man’s heart; when twilight falls, I miss my hometown; calling for dreams with tears, I look for it.”
