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Part B: Growing Season (2009)

Where the lyrics of Part B: Growing Season take you, and where it was really made.

Technically her fourth Korean album, it is only one part of her third album, as the title itself signals.

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Part B: Growing Season: studio album by Korean singer Younha
Released 11 December 2009
Technically her fourth Korean album, counted as a part of her third album as a whole, as the title signals
Nine tracks in total, including two instrumental versions
Collaborators include Yoo Hee-yeol of Toy and singer Hwayobi
Duet 'Something that can be understood after a breakup' with Kim Bum Soo, her first duet with another singer

Follow-up to Part A, Peace Love & Ice cream, released in April 2009
Ballads take a much larger share than on her previous three full-length albums
More self-written songs: 'LaLaLa' and 'Seumuldu beonjjae gil' were written and composed by Younha herself
Title track 'Oneul Heeojyeosseoyo' has lyrics by Hwayobi, who said she wrote them from a real breakup story
Music videos were made for 'Oneul Heeojyeosseoyo', starring Ji Chang-wook and Han Bo-bae, and for 'Joahae', edited from scenes of the film Girl Friends

Born Ko Younha, April 29, 1988, in South Korea; began piano at age 5.
Dropped out of high school at 16 to pursue singing in Japan; later studied Japanese at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies.
Debuted in Japan in 2004 with "Yubikiri"; nicknamed the "Oricon Comet".
Breakthrough single "Houkiboshi" (anime Bleach soundtrack) entered the Oricon top 20, making her the second South Korean artist after BoA to do so.
Debuted in South Korea in 2006 with the digital single "Audition".
First Korean album "The Perfect Day to Say I Love You" (2007) peaked at No. 1; "Password 486" won SBS Inkigayo Mutizen awards.
Won Best New Solo Artist at the 2007 MKMF.
Her 2017 album "RescuE" was ranked No. 8 by Billboard among top K-Pop albums of the 2010s.
"Winter Flower" with RM of BTS made her the first Korean female solo artist to top the US iTunes chart.
Released the seventh album "Growth Theory" in 2024; celebrated her 21st debut anniversary in 2025.

Lee Dae-hwa of iZm defined the album as a 'transitional' work
Lee wrote that its genre consistency is weaker, but that it clearly shows a 'maniac' character
Cultural critic Bae Guk-nam called Younha's tearful apology after lip-syncing on Music Bank a fresh shock
Bae wrote that the apology came as lip-syncing singers were rapidly increasing, and that it made singers and the public think again about lip-syncing

Overall, the album achieved good results after release
Title track 'Oneul Heeojyeosseoyo' ranked number one in radio airplay for four weeks after release
Public interest in the album was high

Gaon Album Chart: number 3, up 15 places from the previous album, Part. A
Dosirak and Bugs: daily chart number 1 on 13 December 2009
Hanter Chart: daily sales number 1 on 13 December 2009
'Joahae' music video ranked number 4 on Dosirak on 15 December 2009
Title track faced a plagiarism controversy over similarities in its intro and chorus to Kim Hyun-chul's 'Dolawajwoyo'

First solo concert, 'Younha's First Concert: Live Official 22-1', was held on 25 December 2009 at Melon Axhall; about 2,000 seats sold out three days after ticket sales opened.
On 1 January 2010 she was hospitalized with suspected swine flu, but the cause was later found to be pneumonia combined with laryngitis.
After returning to Music Bank on 8 January she lip-synced and apologized in tears; she was hospitalized again on 11 January as laryngitis worsened, which effectively ended album promotion.
The title track was accused of plagiarism over its similarity to Kim Hyun-chul's 'Dolawajwoyo' in the intro and chorus.