120 The Rumor Mill

If you ask when bands reached their golden age in Korea, young people would probably answer, “Now.”

That’s because multiple band songs are on the charts, bands are headlining year-end stages, and Japanese bands are being imported and gaining popularity.

In fact, now really is the golden age of bands in Korea.

The most positive part is that they’re still growing.

However, if you ask people somewhat older when bands had their golden age, quite a few would say the early 2000s.

It was a time when several bands with genuine staying power were active, led by the two-horse race of the now-inactive Hanyul Band and Black Canary before they expanded overseas.

They say a person’s greatest songs are the ones they listened to when they were young.

The director of Neulneul Orphanage was from that generation, too, so songs from that era were always playing on the bus whenever we went somewhere.

In other words, their favorite songs were the songs by those bands they listened to back then.

Naturally, there were also several masterpieces that represented the era itself...