Damn it, now the song My Destiny is stuck in my head. ?
Anyway, great post @lezah!

What a wonderful piece of writing! Thanks @lezah for this. I feel nostalgic and happy now with music in the background ❤️️

"I’ve always thought that some people are born more inclined to love music than others"

So so true!

Freaking love Girl's Generation 1979 OST 'Like You' right now. The falling in love at the first sight part. It is by a band called HONEYST.

I'm like your sister. I got a new phone a few months ago and have yet to have any songs on it. Though, I have over 350 new pictures. Having said that. I'm loving the music from Age of Youth 2 and Generation Girls 1979 right now.

i don't religiously watch moon lovers but the ost sang by Lee Hi is on my playlist ? music is my everyday life ?

Great post @lezah! I enjoyed reading it. I think you hit the nail on the head with this:

"I think the magical thing about music is that it is a universal language that allows you to relate to a character in a story, regardless of any language or cultural barriers."

Not only is it such a lovely turn of phrase, but it's such a poignant reminder of important music is and how much it enriches our drama-watching experience.

I feel you, and I envy you for putting it so aptly in words. <3

A good OST might not save a bad drama, but it might make it slightly better True, this. One song still on my phone is Suzy's Why Am I Like This for the the drama who made me sad for HJW and LJW The Time I've Loved You wasted potential . And yes, everytime TLAHL's I'm okay plays on shuffle, I end up playing it all day. The Hangul is simple enough that I understand it. :)

Finally, someone who appreciates Man to Man background music and damn, I love Park Hae Jin more now because of his deadpan scenes!

and lol @lezah, your story with your mom is basically the same experience as mine. I marathoned ToW with my mom too for two days, and I listened to can't forgive on loop for the next week!!!

*five opening notes of You Are My Destiny...*
How could you not sing along when it played?

There's so much I loved in your post @lezah!
1) "I barely remember any of the scenes in these dramas, I remember the OSTs far more clearly". Me too! Hurrah for auditory memory (?)
2) The Man to Man musical cues, beeps and bonks made up for a disappointing soundtrack. They also made PHJ funnier.
3) Glad to see 'I'm Okay' from THE LIAR AND HIS get a mention. I much preferred the soothing slower version than Joy's upbeat version, but both were good. I loved all the Crude Play songs. Another drama that wasn't great but had meaningful lyrics and emotional pull was THE BEST HIT: I start my morning listening and smiling to 'Beautiful', 'Fly' tells me to keep looking up at what matters in life, 'Say It' is Hyun-Jae's anthem, and 'If You' wipes away stress.

Bravo to all the eloquent beanies who have managed to convey the magic of music in such beautifully written posts. ????

P.S.: I got my mom to watch REBEL:THIEF WHO STOLE THE PEOPLE, and yes, now there are two of us going around singing 'OOOH-O-O-O-O-OOOH!' (If Spring Comes).

lovely post! i love your writing, especially your introductory paragraph. i wish i could articulate as well as you.

Goblin's OST album is beyond awesome & Habaek's Glass Bridge is beautiful. i know it's been mentioned so many times, but Chicago Typewriter's Satellite is a gem too. aww, ???

Waw you wrote really well. It was wonderful to feel your feels from OSTs

This is a pretty amazing post, I wish I could write like this. I usually relate songs on an OST to moments in the show but never to real life events in my life. There were days after Six Flying Dragons ended when I would listen to Kim Bo-kyung's I guess It's You and my heart would break all over again and I would cry really badly until I got a headache because I remembered how much it hurt me that Boon-yi and Bang-won don't end up together. I think the only song I've ever heard that related to me personally was Christina Aguilera's Hurt. After my father passed, I would listen to that song and become a sobbing mess.

I barely remember much about that ice skating drama Triple. But that Zitten song remains one of my favorites just because of the (somehow simultaneously) warm and cozy and quite wistful and nostalgic feeling it gives me.

"After all, dramas are simply stories in a visual form—good stories are ones that make the audience feel like they’re walking in the paths of the characters themselves, and the accompanying music is like the pair of shoes that enables us to tread on those very paths and understand the characters better."

This is Such a great post @lezah. Clap-Clap-Clap! ??

Really enjoyed reading your writing <3

In these aspects, music has almost been like a comforting, omnipresent friend. Plugging in my earphones made it a little easier to escape from the daily grind, if only for a while.

Very true. I agree with what you said!
This also brought me to other songs I didn't know because I didn't watch the drama like Habaek's OST :D
Oh, can't deny when I saw "Almost Paradise" and "My Destiny", like an automatic music player, it plays in my head right away hahaha xD (And I haven't even watch My Love From The Star!)

You're right. Plots may change but a song attached to a scene or a particular can make one go through that scene again whwnever, wherever that song is heard.

I used to keep most of my favorite OSTs in my iPod classic (until my unit gave up on me early this year), so i can relive the dramas wherever i go.

i think we all can agree the music/sound cues like "no no no no no" in Jealousy Incarnate and "what" in Weightlighting Fairy Kim Bok Joo and also the recent sound effect and abrupt music cuts in Live Up To Your Name were used so so well it left a huge impression. ;D