LEE Byung-woo is a man with the Midas Touch in the field of film music in Korea. Most of the movies he worked on were huge box office hits, including <Haeundae>(2009), <The Host>(2006), and <King and the Clown>(2005). Not only a film music composer, he is also one of most loved guitarists in Korea who has many fans for his lyrical music. Starting with <Kill the Love> in 1996, he mixed rock, ballad, jazz, and blues on the canvas of classic music, and ha...More

LEE Byung-woo is a man with the Midas Touch in the field of film music in Korea. Most of the movies he worked on were huge box office hits, including <Haeundae>(2009), <The Host>(2006), and <King and the Clown>(2005). Not only a film music composer, he is also one of most loved guitarists in Korea who has many fans for his lyrical music. Starting with <Kill the Love> in 1996, he mixed rock, ballad, jazz, and blues on the canvas of classic music, and has expanded the horizon of Korean film music in almost all genres. He is said to have both artistic quality and popular style. In the history movie <Untold Scandal>, he used baroque-style string ensemble to express the psychology of yangban aristocrats of the Chosun Dynasty. He used gypsy-style music such as the playful "Hymn of the Han river" to express the joys and sorrows of an ordinary family. In <Rules of Dating> and the animation <My Beautiful Girl, Mari>, he used familiar guitar tunes and vocal music to convey the lazy daily routines and fantasy. In <For Horowitz>(2006), a story of a genius young pianist, he directed and composed all the music, getting involved in the movie from its development stage. He tells the story through his music, and is remembered by some of the easiest and beautiful melody lines in Korean film music scores.
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