SPRING DAY!

BTS "Spring Day" and the Sewol-Ho tragedy, A pure magical coincidence?

Hello beautiful people, Im back fully recovered and with a lot of content for you, today I bring you a theory of a song by one of the most recognized Korean boy band in the musical world.

As is well known, BTS has songs with heartfelt lyrics, with different meanings and interpretations, and for a long time the Fanbase of this group has had theories regarding the songs and their MVs.

Today in particular I am going to tell you about Spring Day, a song that belongs to the album "You Never Walk Alone" and was released on February 12, 2017. The first thing we notice in this song is the feeling of longing for someone, it may be a friend they had lost, and the despair and desolation of losing someone.

In the MV you can see the members in different stages, together and separately, overcoming or processing something, and you can see that all the time it is winter, with the imminent cold but also the internal pain that we feel when we do not move on or when we are mourning.

Two important references can be seen in the "Spring Day" video, the first is from the novel "The One Who Walk Away from Omelas", and the second is from the movie "Snowpiercer". 

Many theories were formed regarding this song as it is believed to commemorate the tragedy that took place on April 16, 2014, where the Sewol-Ho ferry sank down. 

It had 476 passengers on board, of which 330 were students with their teachers, in the tragedy only 174 passengers managed to get to safety, while after many searches the death toll reached 183, after an investigation it was found that the ferry it had been illegally modified to increase its carrying capacity, and carried twice the tons allowed.

For this reason, when making a very abrupt turn, it overturned and collapsed, its captain along with two other officers, abandoned the ship without safeguarding its passengers, for which they were prosecuted and sentenced and their conduct was classified as a "kind of act of murder"

In my opinion, not only the MV, even the lyrics itself suggests that part of the song is related to the tragedy. In the second part of RM's rap, he says "Here it is only winter", while in literature winter symbolizes death, old age, pain, loneliness and despair. The phrase "Even in August, it's winter here" could carry the meaning that their loneliness and despair continue despite the season in which they live at the moment.

And the fact that the South Korean government finally lifted Sewol-Ho out of the ocean in March 2017, a month after the launch of Spring Day, was an unexpected event. It seems that the words in the letter became a reality. That the verse "I'll go find you" happened magically.

BTS did not confirm that "Spring Day" was about the Sewol-Ho tragedy, as they wanted to leave the meaning of the songs and MVs to viewers, as they mentioned during their Wings Tour at the Seoul press conference. 

But knowing the fact that BTS and the company made a large donation to the families of the victims shows their awareness of this tragedy and the sense of responsibility as citizens of the country.

There are two YouTube videos where they explain the meaning of "Spring Day" and are the most assertives. I will leave you both explanations as well as the lyrics of the song and the video for you to enjoy.

Lyric video

Official Mv

XOXO Li.