Listen to this CD…and make babies?

Posted in Busan, Child Raising in Korea, Korean Children and Teenagers, Korean Demographics, Korean Translations by James Turnbull on November 10th, 2007

Yep, if you listen to that one you probably will. But if you hear that the Busan Metropolitan City Government thinks…ahem…music is the best method to raise the birthrate and stop the population movement away from the city, then surely James Brown is the first thing that comes to mind?

Not to the suits in Busan apparently. Back in early October, I wrote this post where I translated an article about the City Government’s desire to combat these population issues, and KoreaBeat commented that the article sounded a bit “Soviet-like.” At the time I thought that that was a bit of an exaggeration myself, and may have been more due to my imperfect translation skills more than anything else. But considering the first supposed solution that they came up with below, then surely a “Mother of the Republic” award is next in the pipeline?

출산장려 노래 CD 제작

2007년10월17일 수요일 제1290호, p.2.

출산과 가족친화적인 부산을 만들기 위해 부산광역시와 부산은행이 공동으로 추친한 ‘출산장려 캠페인 송’ 시민공모 당선작이 CD로 나왔다.

부산시는 최근 최우수작 ‘웃음으로(선용 작사, 한수성작곡)’ 와 우수작 ‘아름다운 가족(이상규 작사, 작곡)’ ‘우리처럼(권연순 작사, 작곡)’ 3개 작품에 대한 편곡작업을 거쳐 3천500개의 CD를 제작했다.

시는 듣기 좋고 부르기 쉽게 편곡한 출산장려 캠페인 송 CD를 온 시민이 즐겨 따라 부르도록 지난 8일부터 보육시설, 유치원, 초등학교 및 방송사 등 언론매체를 대상으로 배부 중이다.

출산장려 캠페인 송을 활용하고자 하는 기관이나 단체는 부산시 홈페이지 (www.busan.go.kr) 에서 직접 내려받을 수 있으며, CD가 필요한 경우 시 여성정책 담당관실을 방문하거나 수신자 부담 택배 신청을 하면 된다.

*문의: 여성정책담당관실(888-3091~4)

A CD has been produced to encourage Busan citizens to have more children

In partnership with Busan Bank, the Busan City Metropolitan Government has produced a CD to encourage Busan citizens to make a family-friendly city have more children. The three songs on the CD were chosen in a competition where the public selected the ones they liked the most.

The songs which were the most popular were ‘Through Laughter” (Lyrics: Seon-yong, Composer: Han Su-seong), ”Beautiful Family” (Lyrics and Composer: Lee Sang-Gyu), and “Like Us” (Lyrics and Composer: Gweon Yeon-sun), and 3500 CDs have been produced.

To make these CDs readily accessible to the public, from the 8th of October, these ”Having Children Encouragement Campaign Song” CDs have been distributed to childcare facilities, kindergartens, elementary schools and mentioned by several media outlets.

Agencies and groups that would like to receive the “Having Children Encouragement Campaign Song” CD can order it directly from the City Government homepage at www.busan.go.kr, or visit local Department of Women’s Affairs offices and request it from there. In both cases, upon receiving it you will have to pay a small delivery fee.

For enquiries: Call the Department of Women’s Affairs (888-3091~4)

I’m sorry, I don’t have a copy of the CD myself… even a complete Korea Studies geek like myself has his limits.

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