Sung-hyun Kim(I)
- Composer
- Music Department
Sunghyun Kim is a well-recognized Music Director & Composer for films
in South Korea. Crossing all genres of film, Sunghyun has composed for
independent award winning films, romance, comedy and controversial
historical dramas like Hwaryeohan Hyuga (May 18th). Born in Busan
(Pusan), South Korea, host city of Korea's most prominent international
film festival, Sunghyun found music to be an early fascination in his
life, and in order to play music he built his very first guitar by
hand. Early musical inspirations for Sunghyun were international icons
like Eric Clapton, Hendrix, Page & Plant and Michael Jackson. In these
icons, Sunghyun could see that music stretched beyond a person's
ability to train and learn and instead encompassed a feeling that
methodology fails to explain. It was that inspiration and devotion to
creating music that brought Sunghyun to Seoul where he began his work
as a film composer. After the success of his first few films, Sunghyun
took on a small staff of composers he could direct. In this, he was
able to create more versatile music which proved beneficial to his
goals as a music composer and director as well as the needs of the film
directors he collaborated with. In late 2010 Sunghyun began working as
the Music Director for South Korea's highly anticipated 3D action film,
"Sector 7" (Chil gwang gu). This marks his third collaboration with
Director Ji-hun Kim, and his first collaboration under the guidance of
Haeundae (Tidal Wave) Director and Writer, Youn, Je-kyun.