사랑하기 때문에 (봄밤 OST)

Jung Seung-hwan turns Yoo Jae-ha's 1987 standard into something almost weightless, and that lightness is the whole point. The arrangement keeps its distance — piano first, a slow bloom of strings arriving only when the melody has already earned it — so that the famous progression feels remembered rather than performed. His voice is the instrument that made him a ballad fixture in Korea: thin at the top, breathy in a way that sounds involuntary, with a habit of pulling back exactly where a bigger singer would push. The lyric is plain to the point of naïveté — I can live through today because I love you — and he sings it as if repeating something someone else said. Placed inside *One Spring Night*, the JTBC drama about two adults in their thirties circling each other with the caution of people who have already been disappointed, the song works as the show's thesis in three minutes: love here is not rescue, it's permission to keep going. The generational layer matters too — a young singer covering a songwriter who died at twenty-five, which gives the tenderness an undertow. Best encountered at the end of an episode, or on a walk home when the air has turned warm enough to notice.