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banmal song, couple, goguma, seohyun, sweet potato, we got married, yonghwa, yongseo
[Update] Translated lyrics posted! 🙂 -MintChoc
* Edit: forgot to mention that the mv/clip was made because they were given a mission on “We Got Married” to make a song and put it up on a specific website. The specific website turned out to be YouTube!
One word – CUTE! If you have been following the Sweet Potato/YongSeo couple on the MBC variety show, “We Got Married”, Yonghwa has been working on a song dedicated to Seohyun for months and this is it! I’m surprised by the sudden release of the mv/clip, but I really hope they’ll release a studio version or perform the song live soon. They seriously have great chemistry; SUCH A CUTE COUPLE!
Translation
Introduction
Yongseo: 1 2 3 Hello (Korean English Japanese Mandarin Thai). We are Yongseo couple’s…
Y: I’m Yong
S: I’m Seo
Y: What have we prepared today, Hyun?
S: Today we prepared a couple song that we, the Yongseo couple, wrote personally, called the ‘Banmal Song’.
Y: It’s a nice song and we hope everyone will enjoy it. We will perform right now.
Verse 1
S: It’s so hard for me to say ‘thanks’ or ‘bye’ to you [NOTE: these are informal words in Korean.]
All I can say is “thank you” or “thanks so much” [NOTE: these are formal words in Korean.]
Everything is brand new to me, so I’m a little unsure
How should I say it? It’s still really awkward
Even today, I worry about it
Chorus
YS: hopefully we can be a banmal relationship
though still unnatural
Y: rather than saying “gomawoyo”
let me hear more intimate words
Interlude
S: You know what, Yong?
Y: What?
S: Do you really want to hear banmal from me?
Y: Ah… it will be good if I’m able to.
S: But you know that banmal is hard for me right?
Y: Why is it hard?
S: Err… I really tried very hard… It’s really difficult. How much do you want to hear me speak banmal?
Y: A lot.
Verse 2
Y: When we met for the first time
Even our smiles were shy
After today we should be closer to each other
I’m both excited and looking forward to it.
Chorus
YS: hopefully we can be a banmal relationship
though still unnatural
Y: rather than saying “gomawoyo”
let me hear more intimate words
YS: we can have a banmal relationship
one step at a time, slowly walk closer
Y: look at me in the eye
can you tell me
YS: “I love you”
S: I understand, Yong. (in banmal)
Y: Me too.
Source: sweetpotato4339@YouTube + Chichinhu@Twitter + DjAddick@Soshified + (trans) camjenny@baidu + MountainMadMan@baidu + Lyna@cnbluestorm + smtownjjang@wordpress
SNSD Korean 
OMG. SPAAAAAAAAZZZZZZZZZZZZ
This really took me by surprise that it was already uploaded!
He looks crazy tired.
woo din expect it to come out so fast!…snsdkorean so efficient!…hope the subs come out soon…realli wanna noe wat the conversation part of the song is abt!=)
OMGAHHHHHHH SOOOOOOO FREAKING CUTE!!!!!!!!!
Seobaby was totally staring at him the whole time AHHHHH!! And then Yonghwa gets so shy when he tries to stare at her too hahaha.
And then the ending she’s like “Sarang-hae-yo” and then he said “me too” D’awwwwww.
I really hope they release a studio version or sing live too. It’s too good
umm, what exactly is Seohyun playing on her guitar?
Cute though. I don’t pay much attention to, uh, the yam couple, but as far as I can tell, yeah, they seem pretty decent together. I was pleased to see that, like, he looks at her in the video too, and not just occasionally, so that it’s not like she’s just begging for his attention and all that.
she’s not playing on her guitar, she’s doing it to “keep beat” it’d be the equivalent of tapping your feet to the rhythm so you don’t lose timing.
ah, I should have known. It’s Seohyun after all.
the Sweet Potato couple chatter is really cute, now having the meanings of the words. And as Terrez below, I don’t think a studio version could capture quite what we have here, and what we have here seems to me rather the spirit of this song. But I guess there isn’t a reason not to have one.
sweet potato couple* 🙂
loooooooooooooove them! ♥
This song shocked me to be honest, didn’t expect it to be of this quality 🙂
Loved the harmonies during the chorus.
Yongseo ❤
I’m waiting for them first kiss :DD they’re really cute i hope they will be together for a long long time…
lol seohyun was just playing air guitar hahahahaa
but the song sounds real good esp after watching all the WGM eps…
it really describes their relationship well
hope they get to perform at music bank music core and stuff like that
hehehe that’ll be DAEBAK
DAEBAK!!!!!LOVE IT…
nice song….i want seohyun’s guitar!!
its small and cute….
i wish theyd release a studio version, that was sweet and good thing we have two singers here! seohyun looks like she’s enjoying this so much while yonghwa seems to be focused more on playing and singing
=D GAHHH so cute~ cant wait for next epi
love the part when they sang the last part, “saranghae…” while looking at each other, without even a hesitation crossing their minds :)…and i agree, studio version must come out 🙂 🙂 🙂
Three words: I love it.
I didn’t expect the song to be out so soon but since there are a few discrepancies in time when it comes to the episodes airing and actual time, let’s just say that we’re all glad it’s finally out!
Even though the song is about a couple’s love and informal communication(Am I right in saying that?), it has a charm which I feel distinguishes itself better from all of the other love songs and it appeals to people of all ages, which is very good.
As for some of you out there who request that a studio version be made, truth is, it feels like the video is way better than a studio version. Studio-made songs, no matter how emotional they are, tend to have a limit of how ‘Humane’ it is.
Pardon me as I try to explain myself. the interactions between Miss Seohyun and Mr. Yonghwa halfway through the song feels more like how couples in real-life function and you can clearly feel the love and best of all, true human affections and emotions between them. I don’t know if it’s part of the lyrics, but you get what I mean.
All in all, despite Yonghwa’s guitar empowering Seohyun vocals at the beginning of the video, everything in it, no matter how cliche, display a sense of representation of human life and love through the work that is done and the reason why I love this song right from the start.
Songs like this break the barrier of limitations that other songs have with expressions, I do hope that future iterations will come out more of this wonderful couple.
Nearly forgot about laughter!
=D
VERY CUTE video and an AWESOME end product from our favourite “sweet potato” couple 😉 😀 !!!! Terrez is right, the video portrays the relationship between the 2 individuals better than a studio rendition of the song 🙂 . To top it off, Youtube actually had a 1080 HD version of it 😀 😀 😀 !!! VERY COOL !!!
Haha, took the words out of my mouth!
Really loved the way the conviviality and spirit was captured in such a simple video. It’s a bit of a shame that not a lot of videos like this are being released any more.
But hey! There’s still hope!
What a cute couple. ^^
I’m feeling jealous already. It’d be a joke to say there isn’t any love here. Sweet Potato couple ftw!
wahhhh so cute! I didn’t expect it to be released so soon, what a lovely surprise 🙂
I really love the melody of this song, sooo pretty.
I’m praying that they release an official version or something! It’d be awesome if they got to perform it. But I do love this video, so natural and sweet, just like a girlfriend and boyfriend at home (although a very talented and musically inclined couple). And even if the studio version isn’t as raw, we’ll still always have this vid anyway
I really hope that when Seohyun has more time on her hands she’s able to practise guitar and become great at it so her and yonghwa can jam heheh
I love the sweet potato couple, the show is the highlight of my week!
I hope that we get many more yongseo episodes and a few more beautiful duets too, maybe even an album! hahahah that seems a little unlikely but seriously there should be a “WGM soundtrack album” as all the couples are singers, and even some of the studio members could sing too, it’d be awesome and surely a hit.
WGM confuses me so bad because all the couples just seem so real, i don’t know whether they’re all fab at acting and it’s well set up and scripted or if it’s natural. Hopefully the latter…
is this the original video?
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