8 ‘Gijang Grandmothers’ with an average age of 73 years old debut as a trot group… A song about fishing village life

“The dreaming sea, seaweed, and kelp are overflowing with happiness.”

Eight residents of a fishing village in Gijang-gun, Busan, who have been farming chives and chives, formed a trot group and released a song about the life of the village. The average age of the members is 73 years old.

According to the Field Secretariat of the Fishing Village New Vitality Promotion Project in Mundong Living Area, Gijang-gun, on the 8th, 'Moon Oh-seong Trotgirls' officially released their self-composed song 'Moon Oh-seong Story' and released the music video on YouTube.

The Moon Oh-seong Trot Girls are a trot group formed by eight residents of the Mun Oh-seong area who participated in the resident program of the Fishing Village New Vitality Promotion Project.

Muno-seong is the name that collectively refers to five villages in Ilgwang-eup, Gijang-gun: Mundong, Document, Munsang, Munjung, and Munha.

The Fishing Village New Vitality Promotion Project is a public contest project of the Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries to reduce population outflow and attract relevant populations by supporting the economic and living base of fishing villages.

Their average age is 73 years old. The group's eldest sister was born in 1950, and the youngest was born in 1956.

Most of the members have been farming the famous chives in Gijang.

Among them, Noh Young-ae (76) is a female diver who has been living in the waters of Gijang for 40 years.

The secretariat, which wanted to record the disappearing lives of women in fishing villages, initially planned a poetry writing class, but changed its direction to trot after seeing seniors enjoying singing for five or six hours with a karaoke machine.

I participated in writing and composing this song with musician Cho Tae-jun.

Grandmothers like trot, but since they did not learn to sing professionally, it was not easy to memorize the lyrics or match the beat.

Instead, he sang sincerely, putting into the lyrics the memories and scenery that remained in his heart while living in a fishing village.

The secretariat plans to record the lives of disappearing fishing village women, starting with the song production process.

We are also producing a documentary about the history of women in fishing villages in the Munoseong region.

The goal is to complete it in the first half of next year and submit it to domestic and international film festivals.