Excellent Horse-Like Lady

[dracunculus]

Yeah, um, wow. Via Josh Fruhlinger:

"The paper identified Kim Jong-un's companion as Hyon Song-wol, a former singer with North Korea's Bochonbo Electronic Music Band, whose popularity, it says, peaked in 1995 with her hit song 'Excellent Horse-Like Lady.'"

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[urban_homestead]

Based on that example, she certainly has a lovely voice. I'd heard about this in the news but not heard the song so thank you for linking.

I don't speak Korean but I do have a fair amount of experience with translation work in other languages. When I was reading in the news about "Excellent Horse-Like Lady", I got an unpleasant feeling that someone had deliberately translated the song's name to sound as foreign and awkward as possible. I don't know why they would have chosen the gender-neutral "horse" over "filly", for example, a word that until recently was often used to describe graceful and athletic young girls in English.

[dracunculus]

Well, I have good news and bad news for you. The good news is that I found a better translation, and the proper title is something closer to "Lady Riding a Fine Horse."

The bad news is that the lyrics go like this:

"our factory comrades say in jest,

"why they tell me i am a virgin on a stallion

"after a full day's work i still have energy left

"my skills are truly like lightning they say

"they say i am a virgin on a stallion

"yet again today i was the first to leave for work

"apparently my name was in the paper

"in a xx time

"an award given to youth who live in flight

"they say i am a virgin on a stallion

"the party era is teeming with creation

"a new name they present to youth

"mounting a stallion the dear leader gave me

"all my life i will live to uphold his name

"they say i am a virgin on a stallion

"mounting a stallion my dear leader gave me

"all my life i will live to uphold his name"

[plasticsturgeon]

For a moment I thought there was going to be some hot girl-on-girl action.