It’s retro again. The old stars of pop songs, which passed through the late 1980s and 1990s, will reunite to hold a joint concert. So-called ‘Korea’s Jang Guk-young’ singer Cho Jung-hyun, who led the heyday of Korean ballads in the early 1990s with hits such as “Love Even That Pain” and “Sad Sea,” Lee Chi-heon and his friends, Lee Myung-hoon and Fevers, Kwak Jong-mok and Geon-ahs, and Kim Hak-rae will hold an emotional joint concert under the title of “Back to the Radio.”
The Wonju Chiak Art Center will hold three performances for two days on May 26 and 27. The title “Back to the Radio” was based on the heyday of radio in the 1990s, when popular music was enjoyed on radio, as a symbol of retro. The fact that the stage of the movie “Radio Star,” starring Park Joong-hoon and Ahn Sung-ki, is Wonju, where the concert is located, also worked. Cho Jung-hyun hosts and plays his songs, “Love Even That Pain,” and “Sad Sea.” Lee Chi-heon and his friends are signature band that sing the emotions of the 80s and 90s with many hit songs such as “Gypsy Woman” and “Only You.” Lee Myung Hoon and Fevers won the Popularity Award through the Beach song festival and gained popularity as a band representing university songs. It tells hit songs such as “Just Like That” and episodes from that time.
Geon-ahs sang “Young Smile” and won a series of prizes at the Gangbyeon(Riverside) Song Festival in 1979 and the Youth Song Festival in 1980. Kwak is a member of the 2nd and 3rd generation of Geon-ahs. Kim Hak-rae debuted as a solo artist after singing “I” with Lim Chul-woo as a duet at the MBC University Song Festival in 1979, making hit songs such as “Heart of Sadness,” “Winter Sea” and “My God.” Cho Jung-hyun, who is also the CEO of Booming Studio, said, “I will sing the brilliant songs of my youth with emotions, reminiscing about the days when I was immersed in thought listening to music on the radio, excited by the DJ’s voice on the radio, and wept over the stories on the radio.
Doug Hwang
Staff Writer
