Detail Analysis of [What am I living for]
Concept Jukebox musical with trot songs about the dream of married woman Yoon-Jung Jang who faced unexpected menopause.
Author’s voice Family is the closest, but is too hard to understand. What made us get so much tangled just because we are on the name of family? [What am I living for?] is not only a pretty normal family story but the story of each person who is feeling oppressed by the weight of life everyday even if each generation is different. Specifically this work is a kind of Jukebox musical which is composed of existing trot songs.
Summary Yoon-Jung Jang, the hair stylist with menopause is getting to feel doubts about her life. She had a son Jin-Ho and a daughter Jin-Young after married 2-year-older church guy Il-Ro Lee in her age 23, and lived hard life earning money and taking care of family. However, she now only has almost 30-year-old son prepares for government official, 19-year-old daughter with lots of complains, and a dumb husband who doesn’t even care about her menopause at all. She felt so miserable that she doesn’t even remember when she was such a pretty girl ‘Yoon-Jung Jang’, who hoped for being a great singer. At that time, she was not just a guy’s wife, one’s mom, or one’s daughter-in-law. But surprisingly, she got an offer to be a trot singer at the music school where she enrolled for overcoming her menopause. Setting her mind on living a life just for herself in this time, she decides to become a trot singer even her family against her will.
Author, Woo-Mi Lee
Graduated from Dong-Duk Woman’s University, school of Creative writing
Arranger, Sang-Hun Jun
Music Director, Songwriter
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