Ralph Tae-young CHOI, born in 1971, fist took an interest in music when he was in high school. He became a recording engineer and even joined a band, but it dissolved in 1994 before they had the chance to release their first album. After that, he went to Los Angeles to study recording engineering, and that’s when he realized the prospects of a career in sound post production. When he came back to Korea, he co-founded audio post-house Livetone and made his debut with the hi...More

Ralph Tae-young CHOI, born in 1971, fist took an interest in music when he was in high school. He became a recording engineer and even joined a band, but it dissolved in 1994 before they had the chance to release their first album. After that, he went to Los Angeles to study recording engineering, and that’s when he realized the prospects of a career in sound post production. When he came back to Korea, he co-founded audio post-house Livetone and made his debut with the hit action film <Beat> (1997). In the first three years, as the studio was lacking manpower, CHOI and his coworkers had no choice but for each to take charge of all the different stages of audio post production, but as the company grew bigger he was able to focus on sound mixing. To this day, he has contributed to more than 160 feature films, with credits in <Memories of Murder> (2003), <Tale of Two Sisters> (2003), <The Host> (2006), <I Saw The Devil> (2010), <The Yellow Sea> (2010), <Snowpiercer> (2013), <The Age of Shadows> (2016) and <TRAIN TO BUSAN> (2016). He won two times the Grand Bell Award for Best Sound Design, for <Lump of Sugar> (2006) and <War of the Arrows> (2011), and recently took home the Best Sound Award from the Korean Film Producers’ Association for <The Fortress> (2017).Less