Recommended Korean Music

*essential and/or accessible releases that make for good entry points for the section
**personal favorites
POP (indie pop, pop rock, folk pop, art pop,...)

10cm - 10cm: The 1st EP*
3rd Line Butterfly - Time Table*
Bluedawn - 보옴이 오면*
deb - Parallel Moons
Deli Spice - delispice*
Donawhale - Dive to Blue*
Fanny Fink - Mr. Romance
Gonne Choi
Han Hee Jung - 너의 다큐멘트
Ignite
Jang Pill-Soon - 나의 외로움이 널 부를때
Jung Jae-Hyung - Le Petit Piano
Little Miss Sunshine
Morrie - Don’t Listen To This Music If You Are Happy
Mukimukimanmansu - Mukimukimanmansu
Peppertones - New Standard*
Purple Haze
Rainbow99 - Seoul
Ravie Nuage
Small O - That Will Fall
The Black Skirts - 201**
The Koxx - Access OK
The Stray
Trampauline - This Is Why We Are Falling For Each Other
U & Me Blue - Nothing's Good Enough
What Women Want
Zitten - 짙은
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	B. K-POP (old & new)

	Bak Hyang Rim - Harbor Blues
	Chang-deok
	Cho Yong-pil - The Woman Outside the Window
	E Pak Sa - Encyclopedia of Pon-Chak
	EXID - UP & DOWN*
	f(x) - Pink Tape
	Girls' Generation - Gee
	Hye Eun Yi
	IU - Modern Times*
	Kim Soo Chul - Little Big Man Kim Soo Chul
	leeSA
	Lee Ji-ah
	Lee Sang-Eun - Gong Mu Do Ha Ga
	Lee Sun-Hee - 한바탕 웃음으로
	Lee Ye Na
	Mamamoo - Hello
	Oh Ji-eun
	Puer Kim - Purifier*
	Sand Pebbles - 샌드페블즈
	Sim Soo-bong - 노래천국 논스톱 메들리 40곡
	Someday - 어떤날 1: 1960 1965
	The Barberettes - 바버렛츠 소곡집 #1
	Yoo Jae-Ha - 사랑하기 때문에
	Yozoh - My Name Is Yozoh**
	ヒョソエ - 폭발1초전
FOLK

	A. TRADITIONAL FOLK MUSIC (pansori, pungmul, sanjo, changjak-gugak...)

	Byungki Hwang - Chimhyang-moo: Kayagum Masterpieces Vol. 1**
	Ensemble Sinawi - Cadenza for Soul*
	Eun-il Kang - Vol. 1: Ancient Futures
	Jin Hi Kim - Komungo and KomunGuitar
	Kim So-hee - P'ansori - Korea's Epic Vocal Art & Instrumental Music
	National Center for Korean Traditional Performing Arts - Korean Traditional Music
	Seoul Ensemble of Traditional Music - Korea: Seoul Ensemble of Traditional Music*
	Samulnori - Record of Changes
	Various Artists - Scattered Melodies: Korean Kayagum Sanjo
	김성아, 심상남, 이태백, 김청만 - Young Sanjo*
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	B. CONTEMPORARY FOLK (folk pop, folk rock, indie folk, avant folk...)

	Cho Yong-pil - The Woman Outside the Window*
	Coreyah
	denci Hinji - Day Is Far Too Long
	Eun-Sun Yoo - Binari For Beautiful World
	Hahn Dae-Soo - 멀고먼-길
	Jae Joo Boys - 재주소년
	Jeong Tae Choon - 시인(詩人)의 마을 (정태춘 데뷔음반)
	Jo Yun - Mobius Strip
	Kim Choo Ja - Golden Hit Album
	Kim Doo Soo - Free Spirit
	Kim Jung Mi - Now*
	Kim Min-ki - 김민기*
	Park Minhee - 쓸쓸쓸
	Seo Yu-seok - 신중현 작품집
	Someday - 어떤날 1: 1960 1965*
	The Invisible Fish - Through the Glass Wall*
	Uhuhboo Project - Son Ik Boon Gi Jeom
	whale
	Yoon Youn Sun - Wing of Peace
ROCK (indie rock, psych rock, shoegaze, garage rock, punk...)

Bamseom Pirates - Seoul Inferno
Bulssazo - 너희가 재앙을 만날 때에 내가 웃을 것이며 너희에게 두려움이 임할 때에 내가 비웃으리라
Deul Gook Hwa - DeulGukHwa I
Eloise - Video 1*
Hollow Jan - Rough Draft in Progress
He6 - Go Go Sound '71
Ironic Hue
Juck Juck Grunge
Nell - Reflection of Nell Vol 1*
Run Way - Whal Ju Loh
Sanullim - 새노래 모음
Shin Jung Hyun and the Men - It's a Lie and Woman of the Evening Sun*
Lee Jung Hwa & Shin Jung Hyun & the Donkeys - Lee Jung Hwa with Shin Jung Hyun & Donkeys
Sister's Barbershop - 가장 보통의 존재
Sogyumo Acacia Band - 소규모 아카시아 밴드
The Pearl Sisters  - Unpleasantly: The Anthology*
Vidulgi OoyoO - Aero**
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	A. POST ROCK

	49 Morphines - Partial Eclipse
	Apollo 18 - The Red Album
	Frenzy - Nein Songs
	Jambinai - 차연*
	Kumca - 소실
	Loro's - Pax
	We have underwear and girls too - We have underwear and girls too*
	꿈에 카메라를 가져올걸
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	B. METAL (black metal...)

	Pyha - Songs for Darkspirits and The Haunted House
	Sad Legend - Sad Legend
ELECTRONIC MUSIC (electropop...)

Asoto Union - Sound Renovates a Structure
Glen Check - Haute Couture*
Humming Urban Stereo - Baby Love
Instant Romantic Floor - Instant Romantic Floor
Oh Hee Jung - Everybody here wants you back
Neon Bunny - Seoulight
SORO
YUKARI - Echo*
AVANT GARDE (EAI, classical music, Stochastic music, free improvisation, noise...)

Astronoise - Digression / Degression
Chee-Yun - Szymanowski & Franck: Violin Sonatas
Chung Trio - Tchaikovsky / Shostakovich - Piano Trio / Piano Trio No.1
English - English
Ha-Yang Kim - Ama
Hong Chulki, Jin Sangtae & Kevin Parks - 音影*
Iida Katsuaki & Ryu Hankil - Selected Poems With Clockworks
Isang Yun - Symphonies 2 & 4 (Pomeranian Philharmonic Orchestra/Takao Ukigaya)*
Jin Sangtae - Extensity of Hard Disk Drive*
Kang Tae Hwan - Tokebi and Korean Free Music
Kang Tae Hwan, Miyeon & Park Je Chun - Improvised Memories
Kyung Wha Chung - Violin Concertos (Orchestre symphonique de Montréal/Charles Dutoit)
Myung-whun Chung - Turangalîla-symphonie
Okkyung Lee - Nihm or Noisy Love Songs (For George Dyer)
Ryu Hankil - Becoming Typewriter
Ryu Hankil, Jin Sangtae & Choi Joonyong - 5 Modules I
Unsuk Chin - Akrostichon-Wortspiel (Ensemble InterContemporain)
MISC.

Byung-Woo Lee - A Tale of Two Sisters
Chang Kiha & The Faces - 장기하와 얼굴들
Lee Ji-ah
Lee Ji Soo
Yoo Jae-Ha - 사랑하기 때문에
박규희
김사월X김해원 / 안아줘
NORTH KOREAN PROPAGANDA POP

Mansudae Art Troupe - Vol.69 Revolutionary Opera: The Flower Girl
Moranbong Band
Pochonbo Electronic Ensemble - Greatest Hits - Volume 1*
Unhasu Orchestra
Various Artists - Beautiful Music of North Korea*
Wangjaesan Light Music Band - Instrumentals 11
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