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12 sets · 369 words · meanings in English
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Singles. These are the standalone singles that never landed on an album, spanning the whole career: two 2013 tracks from the 악동뮤지션 era (「라면인건가」, written for K-pop Star, and the shaved-ice jingle 「콩떡빙수」), the autumn single 「시간과 낙엽」, the 2020 breakup song 「HAPPENING」, and the 2025 Cookie Run collaboration 「DADA」. Two things are worth knowing before you study them: 「라면인건가」 turns on a pun, since 라면 is both instant noodles and the ending "if it is," and 「시간과 낙엽」 was written with no loanwords at all, so every word taken from it here is native or Sino-Korean.
개화, Part 2. The back half of 개화 (2026) settles into domestic scenes: a young couple watched from a distance, a slow breakfast defended as a small act of revolt, and a stained shirt that cannot be thrown away. 「옳은 사람」 asks whether anyone is really in the right, and 「난민들의 축제」 turns arrivals with nowhere to sleep into a celebration. The Korean is plain and adult — words for tending, spilling, staining, and letting go.
개화, Part 1. 개화 (2026) is AKMU's fourth album and their first in nearly seven years, made after leaving their original label. The first half is built around travel and weather — a wayfarer walking toward a paradise he's only heard rumors of, a spring counted out in colors, a tent pitched somewhere on the road. The vocabulary is unusually physical: blisters, eyelids, freckles, sunburn, and a run of sound-symbolic adverbs.
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