Kdrama Music Makes Our Hearts Race

Posted By: Ajummah Posted On: April 19, 2012

We’ve all felt it. That adrenaline rush when we hear the theme music to our favorite k-drama. Our minds instantly play a montage of greatest moments of the drama and we crave to see the show again, if only for a moment. How many of us have rewound an episode so you can hear more of the song that’s playing in the background. I think the music in k-dramas is some of the best out there. It can help the audience feel whatever emotion they are trying to convey.

An example of this is when I hear Sad Run from the City Hunter soundtrack. People may not know the song by name but once you hear the drum beat start, you’ll know that the City Hunter is getting ready to open up a can of …well you get the idea.

Don’t You Hear The Music? Time To Run

My current ringtone is from one of my favorite kdrama’s of all time, My Lovely Kim Sam Soon. Clazziquai’s song She Is was used throughout the drama at many pivotal moments. When Sam Soon was looking for Hyun Jin-Heon (her boyfriend) at his house, she finds he isn’t there. She goes back to the elevator to leave, the doors open and *bam* there stands Jin-Heon with his ex-girlfriend. The songs starts to play and the audience can actually feel their heart break as they watch Sam Soon’s face go from surprise to betrayal. True to kdrama form, it was all a misunderstanding but without the music, it wouldn’t have impacted people’s emotions as much…