Born in 1989, LEE Min-hwee, when she was a music theory student at the Korea National University of Arts (K’ARTS), she started composing music for the works of her friends, such as plays, films and exhibitions. It is while working on the school newspaper that she met JUNG Eun-shil, and in 2011, just three days before a small concert organized by the film club of their school, LEE and JUNG decided to take part in it and improvised the creation of an indie duo, Mukimukimanma...More

Born in 1989, LEE Min-hwee, when she was a music theory student at the Korea National University of Arts (K’ARTS), she started composing music for the works of her friends, such as plays, films and exhibitions. It is while working on the school newspaper that she met JUNG Eun-shil, and in 2011, just three days before a small concert organized by the film club of their school, LEE and JUNG decided to take part in it and improvised the creation of an indie duo, Mukimukimanmansu (with LEE taking the stage name of Mansu), along with two songs they managed to create in the remaining days. The video of their performance quickly became a sensation on YouTube, and later that year, they started touring the underground clubs of the capital city. By the end of the year, they had signed with the indie label Beatball Music, and in January of the following year they released their first album, Mukimukimanmansu 2012. They were invited to many TV shows and even snatched a nomination for the Korean Music Awards, for Best Newcomers. Their producer, Dalpalan, being also active as a film composer, they ended up contributing to the soundtrack of the 2011 war film <The Front Line>, the drama <Always> (2011) and the comedy <Couples> (2011), but it was with the indie drama film <Pascha> (2013) that LEE made her debut as a music director. After studying music in Paris and New York, she came back to Korea and served as music supervisor for <Hyeon’s Quartet> (2016), <A Haunting Hitchhiker> (2017) and the documentary film <Untold> (2018), which highlighted a dark page of Korea’s participation in the Vietnam War.Less