[Enjoy Korea]
Bakdaljae
There are some popular and old songs that
everyone knows in Korea. Among them, ‘Bakdaljae crying over’ is related to the
place where I’ll introduce today.
When you hear this song, you might feel
so sad. Do you know the song has a sad story?
Long ago, a countryside scholar named Bakdal was
on the way to Seoul to take Gwageo, the highest-level state examination to
recruit ranking officials. Because it takes several days to get Seoul, he
decided to stay in a village in Jecheon. He wanted to stay a farmer’s
house and the farmer has beautiful daughter named Geumbong. As
you can guess, Bakdal and Geumbong fell
in love each other. However, he couldn’t help leaving the village to take a
test.
He arrived Seoul, but he couldn’t
concentrate his study and examination because of her. So, he failed the
examination. So did Geumbong. She
waited and prayed for him at the hill all day long, and as time went by,
eventually she got tired of wating and died. She had already died when Bakdal
returned to the village. He lost his composure and cried at the hill where she
had waited for him. Suddenly, he saw the phantom of her and hugged. He died
there, too. Because the place he stood was cliff. After that, people called
this hill ‘Bakdaljae’.
Visit here, and you can feel the
heartrending love of them.
