| "For First Time Lovers (Banmal Song)" | ||||
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| Single by Jung Yong Hwa | ||||
| Released | 14 January 2011 | |||
| Format | Music download, limited CDs | |||
| Recorded | 2011 | |||
| Genre | Ballad | |||
| Length | 3:32 | |||
| Label | CJ E&M | |||
| Writer(s) | Jung Yong Hwa | |||
| Producer | F&C Music | |||
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For First Time Lovers (Hangul: 처음 사랑하는 연인들을 위해, subtitled Banmal Song [반말송]) is Jung Yong Hwa's first solo digital single, which is about first-time lovers wanting to get closer. In fact, the song was first disclosed through a South Korean TV show and drew a lot of viewers' attention at the time of the broadcast. After the TV broadcast, viewers kept requesting the official recording of the song.
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Jung Yong Hwa released his digital rearrangement of Banmal Song created by him and Seohyun, his on-screen wife. Banmal Song expressed his wish for her to speak in “banmal” (Hangul: 반말, meaning “informal language” in English) with him and her response to his wish. It was part of the Banmal Song video[1] made as a mission on MBC’s TV show We Got Married for YongSeo Couple (Hangul: 용서커플), a virtually wed couple, to make their own duet song and post it on YouTube. The song's video on YouTube was very popular to hit 1 million views just in two days, and as of 25 November 2011, its view count exceeded 4 million.
Re-titled to For First Time Lovers, the song features lovely lyrics for first-time lovers to get closer and an easy-to-follow melody with a light acoustic sound.[2]
The couple's fans around the world wanted them to release their duet version of the song, but Jung Yong Hwa composed the song by himself regardless of the broadcast, inspired by Seohyun, and at the time, it was impossible for the couple to duet in a given situation.
The Banmal Song video is considered as the music video for the song because it does not have its official one. In the description box of the video on YouTube, what the uploader said is as follows, with an English translation in parentheses:
용서 부부의 부부송인 반말송입니다. (Banmal Song is our couple's song.)
흠.. 많이 미흡하지만 즐겁게 예쁘게 봐주세요. (Well, it is far from perfect, but we put lots of time and effort into it.)
오글오글..........(It makes us cringe.)
그래도 부부의 자작곡이라는 의미가 정말 큰 것 같아요. (However, it is our self-composed song, so it is very meaningful to us.)
잘 들어주세요! (Thank you for watching our video and listening to our song.)