Crazy about singing and living in singing, I am a professor at Dankook University’s College of Liberal Arts. I’m a (historical) musicologist who specializes Korean popular music and also known as a “singing professor”. In 2004, I obtained a Ph.D. from the Graduate School of Korean Language and Literature at Seoul National University with a dissertation, titled “Research on Korean Popular Songs During the Japanese Colonial Period – Focusing on Phonographic Record Materials.”

In 2009, I won the award in the music category for “Yoo Jae-ha-ron – Love, that sad and beautiful story” at the Platform Cultural Criticism Award held by the Incheon Cultural Foundation. Since 2006, I have been giving public lectures with songs and lectures, and since 2017, I have been discovering and introducing various songs through a “lecture concert” that combines lectures and performances and communicates with the public.

In 2012, I officially debuted as a singer by covering and releasing “A Lonely Streetlight” (written by Lee Bu-pung, composed by Jeon Soo-rin, original song by Hwang Geum-shim, 1939). In 2013, I produced and released my first full-length album Modern Joseon: Jazz Song of the 1930s by collecting digital singles released during the “Singing Again Modern Songs” project. In January 2020, I released my second full-length album Midnight In Kyoungsung with Joo, hwa Joon Trio. In September 2022, I released my third full-length album, Gunmal: Meeting Manhae Han Yong-Un through Songs, which consists of seven poems written by Manhae Han Yong-woon.

Starting with creative activities in 2020, I released the album Midnight in Kyungsung, which included the song “Midnight in Kyungsung,” and in 2021 I released “Something in Me,” “Melody in Calm Winds,” “Spring at Last,” and “That’s Not What I Said” as digital singles. I also released “The Latin-style trot <Tete-a-tete(Yellow Daffodils)>” (written by Yoon Young-in, composed by Yoon Young-in, sung by Eujeong Zhang 2016) and “Stop” (written by Eujeong Zhang, composed by Lee Ho-seop, sung by Eujeong Zhang).

In 2014, I stayed at the University of Washington in Seattle, USA as a visiting scholar, and currently serves as the president of the The Korean Association for the Study of Popular Music and as a member of the steering committee of the Seoul Museum of History.