First of all, it originated from the name of a mountain in northwest Korea. The legendary Arirang Mountain is surrounded by eighteen ridges.
The second is My Husband, a love story handed down from the Korean period. Legend has it that there was a loving young couple in the Koryo dynasty on the Korean peninsula who lived a poor life. The husband wants his wife to live a good life and go out to work to earn money, but the wife won't let him, saying that as long as they are together, they will be satisfied. But the husband doesn't think so. He felt that it was really unfair for his wife to marry such a poor man, so one night her husband quietly left the small village to earn money. This lady is a famous local beauty. After learning the news of her husband's departure, the local tyrants in the village tried their best to harass her and threaten her to remarry. However, the young woman was very loyal and flatly refused the request of the local tyrants. However, local tyrants never let her go and often harassed young women's homes. The young woman was lucky to be protected by her neighbors before she lost her virginity to local tyrants. A year later, my husband finally earned money and came back. The couple were very happy when they met again. But at this time, the local tyrants came again, and the gossip of their wives and local tyrants came from the village. The husband became suspicious, thought his wife was unfaithful, and left angrily, and his wife could not stop him from explaining. So the husband walked in front, the wife chased after him, and sang if she couldn't catch up. The content of singing is probably how to care about and miss her husband, how to be wronged and so on. The little song that my wife sang was Arirang. Later, Arirang's stories and songs spread and became the representative classics of the Korean nation. No matter in that corner of the world, as long as there are Koreans, there is Arirang. When you sing Arirang, you know that you are Korean. During Japanese rule, Koreans launched an uprising in the name of Arirang. After the Japanese colonists discovered it, they ordered that anyone who sang Arirang should be beheaded. However, no matter how many Koreans who sang Arirang were killed by Japanese soldiers, there were still Koreans who sang Arirang. The Japanese colonists had no choice but to give up.