In the post, “A Fun Year, Musically! (Part 1)”, I wrote about my friend, Kim Tae-gon, who was a popular Korean singer at the time.
Because of his generosity and good nature, I had many fun and interesting experiences that year which I would not have had, had I not met him.
In my previous post I talked about singing a Korean song on a radio station in Korea. This is the story behind that.
When I first went to Korea, the music caught my attention right away. Whenever a specific song “grabbed me”, I would go into the little record shop and ask what the song was and I’d buy the song book that had that song in it, and the tape (what??) or later, the CD.
I wanted to learn to sing it but I couldn’t speak Korean. So I took Basic Korean classes at the Education Center on base and I began learning the alphabet and the pronunciation right away.