Kim Feel - Someday, The Boy (From Itaewon Class OST) Lyrics (Hangul / Romanized / English Translation) & Vocabulary Notes

Kim Feel - Someday, The Boy (From "Itaewon Class" OST)

🎵 Album: ITAEWON CLASS (Original Television Soundtrack), Pt. 6 - Single | 📅 Release: 2020-02-15

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From the JTBC Drama Itaewon Class (이태원 클라쓰) OST Pt. 6

With his signature husky and emotive tone, Kim Feel portrays the quiet resilience and suppressed heartache of Park Sae-royi. Explore the complete Korean Hangul, romanization, poetic English translation, and curated Korean vocabulary below.

VERSE 1Enduring the Lingering Pain

길었던 하루 그림잔

gireotdeon haru geurimjan

The shadow of this long, exhausting day

아직도 아픔을 서성일까

ajikdo apeumeul seoseong-ilkkah

Is it still lingering around the pain?

말없이 기다려 보면

mareopsi gidaryeo bomyeon

When I wait in silence

쓰러질 듯 내게 와 안기는데

sseureojil deut naege wa angineunde

It collapses into my arms as if about to fall

📚 Section Vocabulary & Notes:

• * 그림잔 (Geurimjan): Contraction of '그림자는' (shadow + topic particle) — Represents the prolonged, trailing weight of a hard day.
• * 서성일까 (Seoseong-ilkkah): From '서성이다' (to linger, pace back and forth aimlessly) + interrogative suffix '-ㄹ까' (I wonder if...).
• * 안기는데 (Angineunde): Passive form of '안다' (to hug), meaning 'to be embraced' or 'to collapse into someone’s arms'.

PRE-CHORUSUnwashable Memories & Shattered Dreams

마음에 얹힌 슬픈 기억은

maeume eonhin seulpeun gieogeun

The sorrowful memories weighing heavily upon my heart

쏟아낸 눈물로는 지울 수 없어

ssodanaen nunmulroneun jiul su eopseo

Cannot be erased, no matter how many tears I pour out

어디서부터 지워야 할까

eodiseobuteo jiwoya halkkah

Where should I even begin to erase them?

허탈한 웃음만이

heotalhan useumman-i

Leaving only a hollow, bitter laugh

가슴에 박힌 선명한 기억

gaseume bakhin seonmyeonghan gieok

The vivid memories engraved deeply inside my chest

나를 비웃듯 스쳐 가는 얼굴들

nareul biutdeut seuchyeo ganeun eolguldeul

The passing faces that seem to sneer right at me

잡힐 듯 멀리 손을 뻗으면

japhil deut meolli soneul ppeodeumyeon

When I reach out my hand into the distance, thinking I can grasp them

달아나듯 조각난 나의 꿈들만

daranadeut jogangnan naui kkumdeulman

Only my dreams flee away, shattered into pieces

📚 Section Vocabulary & Notes:

• * 얹힌 (Eonhin): From '얹히다' (to sit heavily, like indigestion or a burdensome weight on one's chest).
• * 허탈한 (Heotalhan): From '허탈하다' (to feel empty, despondent, drained of strength).
• * 비웃듯 (Biutdeut): From '비웃다' (to ridicule, sneer, scoff) + '-듯' (as if, like). Highlights the cold hostility of society.
• * 조각난 (Jogangnan): From '조각나다' (to break into shards, shatter into pieces).

VERSE 2Crossroads & Growing Up Alone

두 갈래 길을 만난 듯

du gallae gireul mannan deut

As if standing at a crossroads of two diverging paths

멍하니 한참을 바라보다

meonghani hanchameul baraboda

I stare blankly ahead for a long while

무언가 나를 이끌던

mueon-ga nareul ikkeuldeon

Toward a voice that once guided me

목소리에 한참을 돌아보면

moksorie hanchameul dorabomyeon

When I turn back and look for a long time

지나온 모든 순간은 어린

jinaon modeun sun-gan-eun eorin

Every single moment I walked through has grown up

슬픔만 간직한 채 커버렸구나

seulpeumman ganjikhan chae keobeoryeotguna

Bearing nothing but young sorrow along the way

혼자서 잠들었을 그 밤도

honjaseo jamdeureosseul geu bamdo

Even on those lonely nights when I fell asleep all alone

아픔을 간직한 채

apeumeul ganjikhan chae

Holding onto the heartache all by myself

📚 Section Vocabulary & Notes:

• * 두 갈래 길 (Du gallae gil): A fork in the road, crossroads. Metaphor for monumental life choices.
• * 멍하니 (Meonghani): Vacantly, blankly, absent-mindedly in daze.
• * 간직한 채 (Ganjikhan chae): '간직하다' (to cherish, keep, hold onto) + '-ㄴ 채' (while doing, maintaining a continuous state).
• * 커버렸구나 (Keobeoryeotguna): '크다' (to grow) + '-어 버리다' (completed action, often with a sense of regret or finality) + '-구나' (realization exclamation).

CHORUSA Question from Yesterday's Me

시간은 벌써 나를 키우고

siganeun beolsseo nareul ki-ugo

Time has already grown me up

세상 앞으로 이젠 나가 보라고

sesang apeuro ijen naga borago

Telling me to step out into the world now

어제의 나는 내게 묻겠지

eoje-ui naneun naege mutgetji

The me of yesterday would probably ask me:

웃을 만큼 행복해진 것 같냐고

useul mankeum haengbokhaejin geot gannyago

"Do you feel happy enough to smile?"

📚 Section Vocabulary & Notes:

• * 키우고 (Ki-ugo): From '키우다' (to raise, grow, nurture). Here, 'time' is personified as the force that raised him.
• * 어제의 나는 (Eoje-ui naneun): 'Yesterday’s me' — The past younger self looking into the future.
• * 행복해진 것 같냐고 (Haengbokhaejin geot gannyago): Indirect quoted question meaning 'asking whether you have become happy enough'.

BRIDGEThe Unfilled Yearning

아직 허기진 소망이

ajik heogijin somang-i

Until this still-famished yearning of mine

가득 메워질 때까지

gadeuk meweojil ttaekkaji

Is completely and fully filled

📚 Section Vocabulary & Notes:

• * 허기진 (Heogijin): From '허기지다' (to be starved, famished, ravenous). Poetically expresses an insatiable thirst for justice and fulfillment.
• * 소망이 (Somang-i): Hope, wish, or aspiration with the subject particle '이'.
• * 메워질 때까지 (Meweojil ttaekkaji): '메우다' (to fill up, replenish) + passive '-어지다' + '때까지' (until the time when).

CHORUS & OUTROHas That Boy Finally Achieved It All?

시간은 벌써 나를 키우고

siganeun beolsseo nareul ki-ugo

Time has already grown me up

세상 앞으로 이젠 나가 보라고

sesang apeuro ijen naga borago

Telling me to step out into the world now

어제의 나는 내게 묻겠지

eoje-ui naneun naege mutgetji

The me of yesterday would probably ask me:

웃을 만큼 행복해진 것 같냐고

useul mankeum haengbokhaejin geot gannyago

"Do you feel happy enough to smile?"

아주 먼 훗날 그때 그 아인

aju meon hunnal geuttae geu ain

In the very distant future, did that boy back then

꿈꿔왔던 모든 걸 가진 거냐고

kkumkkwowatdeon modeun geol gajin geonyago

Finally come to possess everything he had ever dreamed of?

📚 Section Vocabulary & Notes:

• * 먼 훗날 (Meon hunnal): Distant future, far-off day in the future.
• * 그때 그 아인 (Geuttae geu ain): Contraction of '그때 그 아이는' (The boy from back then). Refers directly to the Korean song title '그때 그 아인'.
• * 꿈꿔왔던 (Kkumkkwowatdeon): '꿈꾸다' (to dream) + past progressive continuous '-어 오다' + past modifier '-던' (that which one had been dreaming of).
• * 가진 거냐고 (Gajin geonyago): '가지다' (to possess, have) + question form '거냐고' (asking whether one possesses).

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