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아이유, 9월 10일 오후 6시 새 디지털 싱글 발매…'바이, 썸머' 이후 약 1년 만

IU Will Release a New Digital Single at 6 p.m. on September 10, About a Year After '바이, 썸머'

가수 아이유가 9월 10일 오후 6시에 새 디지털 싱글을 발매합니다. 소속사 EDAM엔터테인먼트는 4일 0시 아이유 공식 SNS에 컴백 티저 영상을 공개했습니다. 영상에는 초승달과 궤도, 빛나는 구체가 나온 뒤 발매 일시가 나옵니다. 이번 싱글은 지난해 9월 10일에 나온 ‘바이, 썸머’ 이후 약 1년 만의 신보입니다. 신곡 제목과 콘셉트는 아직 공개되지 않았습니다.

Translation

The singer IU will release a new digital single at 6 p.m. on September 10. Her agency, EDAM엔터테인먼트, put out a comeback teaser video on IU's official social media at midnight on the 4th. In the video a crescent moon, an orbit and a glowing sphere appear, and then the release date and time come up. This single is her first new record in about a year, since '바이, 썸머', which came out on September 10 last year. The title and the concept of the new song have not been revealed yet.

Vocabulary

  • 소속사명사 (noun)an agency, a management company
  • 발매명사 (noun)release (of a record), going on sale
  • 공개하다동사 (verb)to unveil, to make public
  • 티저명사 (noun)a teaser
  • 신보명사 (noun)a new record, a new release
  • 초승달명사 (noun)a crescent moon
  • 궤도명사 (noun)an orbit
  • 구체명사 (noun)a sphere, a ball

Grammar points

N 만에after N (an interval), for the first time in N

만에 follows a length of time and says how long it had been since the last time something of the same kind happened. It needs a stretch of time in front of it, so 1년 만에 works but 어제 만에 does not. Entertainment news leans on it constantly, because the gap since the last release is half the story.

Example: 이번 싱글은 '바이, 썸머' 이후 약 1년 만의 신보입니다.

This single is her first new record in about a year, since '바이, 썸머'.

-(으)ㄴ 뒤after doing

-(으)ㄴ 뒤 attaches to a verb stem and puts one event after another in time. It is interchangeable with -(으)ㄴ 후 in most sentences; 뒤 is the native Korean word and 후 the Sino-Korean one, and 뒤 reads slightly plainer. Use it when the order matters, as it does when you are describing what happens on screen.

Example: 초승달과 궤도, 빛나는 구체가 나온 뒤 발매 일시가 나옵니다.

A crescent moon, an orbit and a glowing sphere appear, and then the release date and time come up.

아직 -지 않았다has not ... yet

아직 pairs with a negative to say something has not happened up to now, leaving open that it still might. Swap 아직 for 이미 and the negative usually has to go, because the two adverbs point in opposite directions. News writing uses 아직 -지 않았다 to mark the gap between what has been announced and what has not.

Example: 신곡 제목과 콘셉트는 아직 공개되지 않았습니다.

The title and the concept of the new song have not been revealed yet.

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