Compilations and classic songs that put you in mind of the city, from Traveler’s city playlist.
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Compilations:
Greatest Hits: Reminiscing Over a 35-year Musical Career, Cho Youn Pil (2003)
Cho, Korea’s answer to Frank Sinatra and the king of “trot”—a jaunty musical style popular with the older generation—looks back in this four-CD collection.
Ultramania, Seo Tai-ji (2000)
Classic album from Seo, a hip-hop and rock maestro, who is the father of modern popular music in Seoul.
It’s Raining, Rain (2005)
Smash hit from the Pan-Asian superstar of dance. What more is there to say?
Girls on Top, BoA (2004)
Slickly produced album from pop princess BoA, wildly popular in Korea and Japan.
Traveling of Sound, Kim Young Dong (1994)
Haunting, evocative, and beautiful new age arrangements of traditional Korean instruments and synthesizer.
Classic songs:
The “Korean Wave” of music only started to rise in the late 1990s, but now local rappers and balladeers are garnering fans across Asia. Here are ten hits that evoke Seoul:
1. “Seoul, Seoul, Seoul” by Cho Youn Pil
2. “The Lights of Seoul” by BoA
3. “Got Rice?” by Azn Pride
4. “Dongnae Han Bagui” (“Around the Block”) by Tablo featuring Epic High
5. “Uri Hyeong” (“My Brother”) by Outsider
6. “Ddeobeori” (“Blabbermouth”) by Leo Kekoa
7. “Sora Pururun Sora” (“Evergreen Pine Tree”) by MC Sniper
8. “Inseangeui Sipyee Jinbeob” (“12 Dispositions of Life”) by MC Mong
9. “Chak Hakae Salleo” (“Live Kindly”) by Yang Dong-geun
10. “Onul Seouleun Haru Jongil Malgeum” (“Clear Day in Seoul”) by Toy
