an amendment to a previous post:

I wrote this post a few months ago about the distinction between 잃어버린다 (I lose something) versus 잊어버린다 (I forget something) that Jongwan said on You and I on the 2012 May 06 broadcast — and this is why I shouldn’t write posts off the top of my head without checking my sources — because Jongwan actually flips it, and, to make life simpler, I’ll just transcribe/translate what he said, so please excuse my spelling/spacing:

예전에는 뭔가 잃는게 굉장히 두려웠던 것 같에요.  그리고 그게 되게 힘들고 … 근데 시간이 점점* 지나면서는 내가 잃는 것 보다는 뭔가 잊어가고 있는 것들이 굉장히 슬프게 느껴지들아구요.  제가 예를 들어서 그 어떤 소중한 사람이 됐든 아니면 꿈이 됐든 그걸 잃어가는 것 보다는 내가 그런 것 자체가 있었다는 것 조차 잊어가는게 슾퍼서 아마 전반적인 앨범에 가사 내용이 좀 그런 내용이 아닌가 …

Before, I think I was afraid of losing something.  And that was incredibly hard … but, as time passed, instead of losing something, I started to feel more sadness about forgetting something.  For example, whether it’s an important person or a dream, instead of losing that, because I felt sad about forgetting that I even had such a person/thing, I think that’s why the lyrics on this album generally have that quality …

*  I think that’s what he said; I could be wrong, though.

Okay that’s a shitty translation, but it’s 1 AM, and I’m trying to edit two stories tonight and write one more.

My apologies for my previous error, but, you know, either way, it’s still an interesting thread, this contrast between two concepts that seem very similar because they both have to do with loss in one way.  (: