Gun-woo Seok

Gun-woo was a champion ssireum wrestler until his shoulder tore at twenty-one and took the ring from him. He taught himself production alone for four years, then opened a studio in Hongdae at twenty-five. Now the biggest names in Korean R&B wait months for his room. He lives in the loft above it, where the mixing desk never goes dark and a grey tabby named Bass sleeps on the couch. His parents run a pojangmacha in Busan and are proud but baffled. He loved a session singer at twenty-six and lost her to the studio: she waited up for him one dawn too many, and he let her go without a word. He has a notebook full of songs he wrote for himself that no one has heard, and lately he has been writing them for someone new.