Yoo Gun-hyung

This is a Korean name; the faimily name is Yoo.

Yoo Gun-hyung is a Sooth Korean recordin airtist, sangwriter, an producer best kent as the co-writer an co-producer o the 2012 warldwide hit sang "Gangnam Style" performit bi co-writer PSY.

Biografie

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Yoo Gun-Hyung wis introducit tae the warld o K-pop in 1996 as ane-hauf (alang wi Suh Jung-Hwan) o the Korean hip hop duo Untitle.[1] Yoo an Suh war baith still in heich schuil, an gained pairticular notoriety in the Korean muisic industrie acause thay wur awready writin thair awn sangs.[2] Thair seicont album, entitled The Blue Color wis released in 1997.[3] Untitle disbandit in 1999.[3]

Yoo's collaboration wi PSY goes back at least tae 2006, wi Yoo writin muisic an PSY writin leerics for sangs on the 2006 album PSY – We Are The One.[4]

Yoo an PSY hae co-written sangs for IVY,[5] Kim Jin Pyo,[6] an Ulala Session an aw.[7]

It haes been reportit that Yoo an umwhile Untitle co-memmer Suh hae been wirkin wi Jang Woo Hyuk (umwhile o H.O.T.) on a solo project.[8]

"Gangnam Style", the lead single o PSY 6 (Six Rules), Part 1, which Yoo co-wrote wi PSY, wis released on 15 Julie 2012, an the video wis uploadit tae YouTube the same day.[9] Athin weeks, the video haed made it tae #3 on YouTube's muisic video leet.[9] Then in August, the video went viral ootside o the Korean-speakin warld, an bi September haed acome the maist "likit" video in the history o YouTube.[10]

References

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  1. ↑ miketastic, "Way Back Wednesday: Spring Fling", www.allkpop, March 21, 2012. Note that although English-language sources sometimes mistakenly call the group "Untitled", the group's music videos (i.e. this one) feature the spelling "Untitle" and that is the spelling used by major English-language sources on South Korean popular culture, including soompi.com and allkpop.com.
  2. ↑ miketastic, "Way Back Wednesday: Spring Fling", www.allkpop, March 21, 2012.; thunderstix, "Two Old School Idol Groups Come Together for New Album", scoompi.com, May 4, 2011. Archived 2015-01-01 at the Wayback Machine
  3. ↑ a b miketastic, "Way Back Wednesday: Spring Fling", www.allkpop, March 21, 2012.
  4. ↑ "edward1849, "Top 20 – May week 4", May 30, 2006". Archived frae the original on 11 September 2014. Retrieved 21 December 2012.
  5. ↑ "edward1849, "New albums and singles preview – 2009 October week 5", Nov. 1, 2009". Archived frae the original on 23 Juin 2018. Retrieved 21 December 2012.
  6. ↑ "edward1849, "Weekly K-pop Music Chart 2010 – February Week 2", Feb. 14, 2010". Archived frae the original on 4 Mairch 2016. Retrieved 21 December 2012.
  7. ↑ Stewart Ho, "Ulala Session Shakes Things Up With Park Han Byul in Music Video, Makes an All-Kill on Charts", CJ E&M enewsWorld, May 10, 2012.
  8. ↑ "thunderstix, "Two Old School Idol Groups Come Together for New Album", scoompi.com, May 4, 2011". Archived frae the original on 1 Januar 2015. Retrieved 21 December 2012.
  9. ↑ a b Kevin Alloca, "'Gangnam Style' is Your International Hit of the Month", YouTube Trends, Aug. 7, 2012.
  10. ↑ "'Gangnam Style' holds Guinness world record for most 'liked' video in YouTube history", guinnessworldrecords.com, Sept. 20, 2012