Cho Sung-woo is one of the two most prominent figures in Korean film music, along with [Lee Byung-woo]. He has produced many, long-lasting original scores that joined together diverse music genres, from vocal music and jazz to rock music and techno. He is known to have special relationships with directors [Hur Jin-ho], K[im Tae-yong], [Park Heung-sik], [Ryu Jang-ha], and [Lee Myung-Se] and produces music that matches with their movies and calmly, quietly persuades thei...More

Cho Sung-woo is one of the two most prominent figures in Korean film music, along with [Lee Byung-woo]. He has produced many, long-lasting original scores that joined together diverse music genres, from vocal music and jazz to rock music and techno. He is known to have special relationships with directors [Hur Jin-ho], K[im Tae-yong], [Park Heung-sik], [Ryu Jang-ha], and [Lee Myung-Se] and produces music that matches with their movies and calmly, quietly persuades their audiences to willingly suspend their disbelief. In the later years of 1990, he started receiving attention for his captivating scores for An Affair, A Promise, and Christmas in August. He excels in transferring the director's movie philosophy into music, as seen in Memento, Mori, Nowhere to Hide, Barking Dogs Never Bite, and Dualist. What stands out is his effort to hold firm to his view that original music should be used, to find a way for film music to become better known, and to develop his production company, [M&FC], which specializes in film music, in the midst of the Korean movie businesss opposing trend toward using popular songs. He has recently worked as a producer and has composed less music since taking on the position of director of the [Jacheon National Film Music Festival], but has left a lasting impression through the TV series Flame and the musical Jewel in the Palace.
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