Premium Chosun | [Kim Hyun Jung’s Picture Radio (4)] A Dazzlingly Beautiful, Brief Love
In the fourth installment of her Chosun Ilbo Premium Chosun column 'Kim Hyun Jung's Picture Radio,' Korean painter Kim Hyun Jung introduced her work 'Naesoong: Inner Portrait.' The piece opens with reflections on cherry blossoms blooming and falling quickly, but since the Premium Chosun service has been discontinued, the rest of the original text could not be verified.
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Inner Portrait
"It's nice."
Such an ordinary, seemingly unremarkable phrase, yet it lingers strangely on my lips.
The scent of cherry blossoms, carried on air still a little chilly, stirs an odd excitement in me.
Perhaps because I know I can't enjoy them for long, or because of the wistful color of the petals, all kinds of emotions well up.
No less striking than the sight of them in bloom is the sight of them falling.
The unusually thin petals scatter and flutter down, one by one.
It almost feels like an illusion of snow falling in the warmth of spring.
As if announcing spring, they seem to decorate it splendidly along with the shimmering heat haze, but once the spring rain falls, only green leaves remain.
The time to enjoy cherry blossoms is far too short.
[From here, the original text moves behind Premium Chosun's (premium.chosun.com) paid-subscriber-only screen, and since that service has since been discontinued, the rest of the body text could not be verified. The paragraphs above are a verbatim transcription up to the point confirmable from the actual archived article page still preserved on the Internet Archive.]