Kim Changwan Band on Sync Next 26

About this show

At the Front of Every Timeline We've Called Into Being Something has shifted. K-pop now explodes overseas before Korea even catches up. It expands into animation, games, and virtual worlds, growing into a vast universe of its own. Running alongside that wave, Korean popular music has carried its own emotional depth and storytelling — walking the same timeline, in its own way. Kim Chang-wan is one of the rare artists who has lived that entire continuum. The experimental spirit of Sanulrim, the lyricism of folk, the innocence of children's songs, the everyday language of TV dramas — he carries the emotional roots of Korean music from before K-pop existed. And yet he watches today's industry-driven music not with judgment, but with quiet curiosity. On one stage, Kim Chang-wan Band brings together two forces that have traveled the same timeline: K-pop as a global industry, and Korean popular music as a record of human feeling. Together, they play K-pop back — in a language that was always ours.

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