KIM Hyungsuk

Composer / Producer / Research Associate, University of Oxford

KIM Hyungsuk
Times of the Remarks 2024. 11. 12. 14:45-15:25
Title Beyond K-pop: How to Ride the Wave

Composer KIM Hyungsuk has been a prominent figure in the Korean music industry for the past twenty years as a “hitmaker,” composer, and producer. He has enjoyed popularity over a long career that has included producing K-pop artists as well as composing over 1,400 songs, including original soundtracks for films and dramas. More recently, he has gone beyond composing and producing (famous songs include “For the Reason of Love” by Kim Kwang-seok, “I Believe” by Shin Seunghoon, “A Beautiful Farewell” by Kim Gun-mo, and “Again” by Lim Changjung) to become a nationally loved entertainer expanding the horizons of the K-pop industry.


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Beyond K-pop: How to Ride the Wave

K-pop emerged amid the ongoing evolution of Korean popular music as a genre that fused Western music and traditional Korean music, a combination that eventually attracted global attention beginning in the 2000s. Today, new technology like AI is ushering in significant changes to how K-pop is created and produced, signaling an impending paradigm shift for the music industry as a whole. In particular, AI has the potential to not only enable greater efficiency in the creative process but also, in synthesis with uniquely human creativity, drive the creation of more innovative content. While such advances in technology will not replace human creators altogether, efforts to facilitate collaboration between the human imagination and AI in tandem with such advances will become increasingly critical. This session looks at how the convergence between AI and music is poised to expand the bounds of music globally and fuel groundbreaking innovations in culture.