Singer Jung Dong-won shared his thoughts on collaborating with ‘Trot senior’ Seol Woon-do, who wrote and composed the song ‘Age to Start Love’.

Jung Dong-won will release his second full-length album ‘Gift of Long Legs’ at 6 PM on the 13th. Ahead of the release of his new album, he held a media showcase at Nodeul Island Live House in Yongsan-gu, Seoul and revealed the process of preparing the album.

He said, “The song ‘Age to Start Love’ was written by Seol Woon-do. He decorated the lyrics to fit my age. The teacher said, ‘I think you‘re old enough to love now,’ and handed me the song. I think that the age at which I can actually start loving is now that I have this song.“

Then, when the host jokingly asked, ‘Shouldn’t you start loving for real?’, he replied, “But can I say that I want to love alone?”, laughing out loud, making the room burst into laughter.

He explained, regarding the reason he met Seol Woon-do, “I‘ve always wanted to receive a song from Seol Woon-do. So I asked the company for one. Then, he readily agreed to meet me. So I visited him, and he said, ‘I just thought of a song that suits you well,’, and that was ‘The Age to Start Love.’. He coached me to sing the song while thinking about the anticipation and excitement of being able to love, just like in the lyrics.”

Also, the top 6 members of ‘Mr. Trot’ still keep in touch through frequent text messages. They cheered me on a lot because it’s been a long time since I released a full-length album. I played a song called ‘Heung!’ for Park Jin-young sunbae first. He said it was so good that he listened to it two or three times. He said he was looking forward to it,” he said.

Meanwhile, Jung Dong-won‘s second full-length album, ‘Gift of Long Legs’, was inspired by the novel ‘Daddy-Long-Legs’, and contains warm comfort and support that Jung Dong-won and his fans give each other as ‘Daddy-Long-Legs’. It consists of a total of 14 songs, including the double title tracks ‘Heung!’ and ‘Flower Light’.


Reporter Yoo Ji-hye yjh0304@donga.com

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