Lim Young-woong’s side “A presidential election song? not provided”


Trot singer Young-woong Lim’s side has made it clear that it has never provided an election song to any political party related to the ’20th Presidential Election Campaign’.

On the 21st, Lim Young-woong’s agency, Fish Music, said through the official fan cafe, “There are many inquiries and misunderstandings regarding the current election song, so I would like to inform you. We would like to inform you clearly that Lim Young-woong has not provided any election songs in relation to this election.”

This is a notice posted after Lim Young-woong’s ‘The Story of an Old Couple in Their 60s’ was known as the election song of Yoon Seok-yeol, the People’s Power presidential candidate.

Earlier, on the 10th, the People’s Power Election Headquarters selected ‘The Story of an Old Couple in Their 60s’ as well as ‘Where the Wind Blows’, ‘Apartment’, ‘Chinya’, and ‘Aroha’ as logo songs to be used during the official election campaign. said it did

The original song of ‘A Tale of an Old Couple in Their 60s’ was Kim Mok-kyung, and the version sung by Kim Gwang-seok is best known. As Young-woong Lim sang this song to ‘Mr. Trot’, his version became famous recently.

It is reported that the election song of Candidate Yoon this time was sung by a singer other than Lim Young-woong.

On the other hand, according to the notice on ‘How to use music for election promotion’ in the ‘Frequently Asked Questions’ section of the Korea Music Association, for music for election promotion, it will contact the copyright holder directly to obtain a rewrite agreement, negotiate and pay the amount and pay the association for reproduction. it specifies that

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