By Honorary Reporter Marianna Szucs from Hungary

Photos = Marianna Szucs

Spring is one of the most popular seasons for visitors to Korea. I once went there in April to experience the sunny weather and warm temperatures firsthand. 

Whenever I explore sights, I usually listen to music to make my experience more enjoyable. Certain songs also help me reminisce about those good times, and the following are K-pop tunes I think of when seeing leading spring flowers in Korea.

Cherry blossoms 

Cherry blossoms
Cherry blossoms are one of Korea's main attractions in spring. I recommend listening to indie band Busker Busker's "Cherry Blossom Ending," which I consider an iconic K-pop song of the season, and "Spring" by Bol4, which has a spring-like rhythm and melody.

Forsythias

Forsythias
These flowers display their golden yellow petals on long, delicate branches and remind me of happy and carefree beings with their long and funny-shaped cluster of branches. Radiating the same vibe are "Flower Road" by Big Bang and "Flower Shower" by Hyuna. Both songs have an upbeat and catchy sound that makes me happy whenever I listen to them, and listening to these songs and walking along the yellow flowers are invigorating.

Azaleas 

Azaleas
One of my favorite flowers, the azalea has as one of its prime spots in Korea Daegeumsan Mountain on Geojedo Island, with a gorgeous pink and purple sea of the flowers mixed with cherry blossoms. 

"Spring Day" by BTS comes to mind when thinking of these flowers. Another is "‘Star Blossom" by Doyoung and Kim Se-jeong, as this soft and jazzy tune is about a couple's romantic stroll at night gazing stars. They were perfect match when I was overlooking the rosy mountainside.

Canolas

Canola flowers
Springtime in Korea is incomplete without canola flowers and crowds taking photos of them in vast fields, as I saw at the astronomical observatory Cheomseongdae in Gyeongju, Gyeongsangbuk-do Province, and on Jeju Island.

This flower brings to mind the songs "Eight" by IU featuring Suga and "Hopefully Sky" by Eunji featuring Hareem. The former evokes a feeling of nostalgia and its chorus brings me back to open fields and gushing winds, and the latter has a folk-pop touch that reminds me of the crowds strolling and taking photos in canola flower fields.

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