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Jung Jae-il (Korean: 정재일, Korean pronunciation: [tɕʌŋ tɕɛ il]; born 7 May 1982) is a South Korean music composer. He notably composed the score of award-winning movies Okja and Parasite , both directed by Bong Joon-ho , [2] as well as the score of the television series Squid Game , the latter earned a nomination for ...
- An Experimental Musician
- His Childhood & Early Career
- Film Music
- Jung Jae IL & Bong Joon Ho
- ‘Parasite’ Music Director & Composer
- Mainstream Music
- Jung Jae IL & Park Hyo Shin
- Revitalizing Traditional Korean Music
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He might be associated as a pianist because of his more public appearances, but Jung Jae Il can play more than the piano. He is also adept on the guitar, bass, and drums. Watch him play all three instruments to the music from the theatre performance ‘Club Salome.’ What might be less known are the unlikely instruments he experimented with as the mus...
How did someone like Jung Jae Il start off in music? His beginnings were not unusual for a Korean child. When he was 3 his mother sent him to piano lessons but he didn’t learn it for long. It was because of his interest in rock music when he was 10 that he started playing the guitar.
His work in film started as early as 1997 when Jung Jae Il was only 15 years old. He participated in the music for Bad Movie (나쁜 영화), an R-rated movie that he would have been too young to watch himself. Along with a host of collaborations in film music over the years, some of the more internationally recognized films he worked on were Romance of Th...
Jung Jae Il’s encounter with Bong Joon Ho goes back to the 2014 movie Haemoo – Bong as a producer and Jung as the music director. Bong, with his eye for spotting talented individuals, decided to put Jung Jae Il in charge of the movie for his next directorial work, Okja (옥자). The 2017 Netflix film Okja, was not only a movie directed by Bong Joon Ho ...
Parasite (기생충) had a number of components that gelled together and made the movie resonate with audiences globally. Music was one of them. Jung Jae Il was the music director behind Parasite who also acted as a composer and musician to 25 original soundtracks. This includes a 7-minute classical piece entitled The Belt of Faith that integrates seamle...
Jung Jae Il is a much sought-after talent among mainstream Korean artists as well. He has played accompaniments, produced albums, done arrangements for some of the big guns in Korean music, both old and new. He’s worked with artists such as Yoon Sang (윤상), Lee Juck (이적), Yoon Do Hyun (윤도현), and IU (아이유). Here’s a clip of his collaboration with sing...
The ‘Jung Jae Il and Park Hyo Shin collaboration’ might not have happened if it wasn’t for the mandatory military service in Korea. The two met while they were both serving in the publicity division of the military, and their chance encounter ended up producing poetic and beautiful music. Park Hyo Shin’s writing and singing combined with Jung Jae I...
Jung Jae Il has paved a new genre that fuses traditional Korean music with the more familiar sounds of western instruments. He has also performed this music at two very significant and public events in Korea, proudly reminding Koreans and showing the world how beautiful traditional Korean sounds can be.
Check out curated YouTube playlist of Jung Jae-iland dive deeper into the composer’s work through the links below: 1. Instagram 2. YouTube channel 3. Spotify Artist Profile 4. Insight into Jung Jae-il’s music on JTBC’s ‘Your Song’
Jung Il-woo (Korean: 정일우; born 9 September 1987) is a South Korean actor. He is best known for his roles in the sitcom Unstoppable High Kick (2006), and the television dramas The Return of Iljimae (2009), 49 Days (2011), Cool Guys, Hot Ramen (2011), Moon Embracing the Sun (2012), and Cinderella with Four Knights (2016).
Impossible. Critics praised the South Korean TV series for its dystopian and often brutal social commentary on modern-day capitalism. When it became a global phenomenon almost instantly after its release, so did the music that Jung directed and scored.
Music director, composer and instrumentalist Jung Jae-il gained international recognition with his musical work for critically acclaimed films and TV dramas such as “Okja” (2017), “Parasite”...
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Sep 7, 2023 · Ahead of an opening performance for this year's K-Music Festival in London, we speak to Jung Jae-il, the award-winning composer of the soundtracks to Parasite and Squid Game. “Listening was the greatest study,” he tells Liam Izod
Feb 27, 2023 · Composer and musician Jung Jae-il plays his new track ″Listen″ during a press conference held Friday at the JCC Art Center in central Seoul for his latest album of the same title. [UNIVERSAL MUSIC] For Jung Jae-il, the music director of “Parasite” (2019) and “Squid Game” (2021), music means both love and labor.
