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K-Hip-Hopโ€™s Biggest Names Take Center Stage on โ€˜KrOWN X HAN 2024โ€™

This month marked the return of Spotifyโ€™s HAN, our collaborative program that brings the unique sounds and culture of Korean hip-hop to the world through exclusive artist collaborations, bonus content, and more.ย 

Developed in partnership with Korean hip-hop community HIPHOPPLAYA, HAN references the complex Korean emotion of the same nameโ€”an indescribable blend of resentment, sorrow, bitterness, anger, and sadness. Arising from the historical and cultural experiences collectively shared by Koreans, itโ€™s a feeling that serves as creative inspiration for the artists involved.

For this yearโ€™s iteration, dubbed KrOWN X HAN 2024, some of the biggest names in the K-hip-hop scene joined up in the studio to record a pair of new Spotify Singles.

The first single, โ€œNo Tomorrow,โ€ offers a diverse blend of styles from CHANGMO, Dok2, lobonabeat!, Shyboiitobii, and SMUGGLERS while delivering a message that resonates not only in Korea, but worldwide.ย 

“Thanks to Spotify, I had the chance to collaborate with incredible artists I’ve admired for a long time, crafting this new track,” said CHANGMO. “I hope that the positive energy created from this collaboration reaches beyond Korea, introducing Korean hip-hop to listeners worldwide.”

The second single, โ€œUgly,โ€ is a collaboration between Lil Moshpit, Paul Blanco, and Okasianย  featuring a minimalist beat produced by Lil Moshpit, who took home Hip-Hop Album Of The Year at the Korean Hip-Hop Awards 2023. The artistsโ€™ rhymes complement the track, adding to its playful sound.ย 

โ€œI am honored to contribute to KrOWN X HAN 2024,” said Lil Moshpit. “Collaborating with artists of unique styles was truly exciting. I believe this initiative will not only revitalize Korean hip-hop globally but also forge deeper connections with fans worldwide through our music.โ€

Take a deeper dive into K-hip-hop

Following the release of both songs, each participating artist selected five songs to be featured on our flagship K-hip-hop playlist, KrOWN, creating a stronger connection with fans and showing off their personal tastes.

Additionally, through Spotify clips on KrOWN and HIPHOPPLAYA’s official YouTube channel, listeners can discover behind-the-scenes footage, live performances, and stories that detail the creation of both songs.

“We are committed to giving Korean artists a platform for their music to reach listeners across the globe,โ€ said Jungjoo Park, Spotifyโ€™s Head of Music, South Korea. KrOWN X HAN 2024 marks the continuation of our chapter in celebrating the voices and talent of Korean hip-hop, and we couldnโ€™t be more thrilled to be working with HIPHOPPLAYA to bring this to life.โ€

HAN, IRL

Spotify will also serve as an official sponsor of the HIPHOPPLAYA Festival 2024, Koreaโ€™s largest hip-hop festival. Taking place on May 4 and 5 at Nanji Hangang Park in Seoul, the festival will feature special performances from a number of artists involved with KrOWN X HAN 2024, including CHANGMO and Shyboiitobii.

โ€œWe are excited to collaborate with Spotify towards the renaissance of Korean hip-hop and to partake in the journey of bringing more Korean artists and music to the world,โ€ said Yongjun Kim, Founder and CEO of HIPHOPPLAYA. โ€œWe hope that Spotify Singles will serve as a bridge connecting Korean hip-hop with listeners worldwide, offering them an opportunity to enjoy the rich culture of Korean hip-hop together.โ€

KrOWN X HAN 2024 arrives at a time when global interest in K-hip-hop is surging. Between 2014 and 2022, K-hip-hop streams on Spotify skyrocketed by 9,500% globally,*ย and since the launch of HAN last February, they have grown by more than 40%.**ย And the genreโ€™s appeal is crossing borders, with the United States, Mexico, South Korea, Brazil, Indonesia, Thailand, India, the Philippines, Japan, and Canada emerging as the top consumers of K-hip-hop.***

This campaign also follows up on the success of last yearโ€™s inaugural HAN outing, which saw K-hip-hop trendsetters like Jay Park, Kid Milli, and MIRANI release six Spotify Singles. The tracks, which included โ€œGrrrโ€ and โ€œRock With You,โ€ caught the attention of hip-hop fans worldwide and have amassed close to 14.4 million streams to date.****ย Notably, “Grrr” went on to become the Best of KrOWN Song 2023 on Spotify and was nominated for the Best Collaboration of the Year at the Korean Hip-hop Awards 2024. “Rock With You” was also featured in our playlist Best of TrenChill K-R&B 2023.

Spotify is committed to supporting K-hip-hop culture through the flagship playlist KrOWN and programs like K-hip-hop Rookies that showcase the next generation of hip-hop talent in Korea. With our latest iteration of HAN, weโ€™re continuing to support this vibrant musical culture.ย 

Discover more of the biggest talents in Koreaโ€™s hip-hop scene with our flagship playlist KrOWN.ย 

*Data from Jan 1, 2014 to Jan 1, 2023

**Data from Feb 23, 2023 to Apr 1, 2024

***Data from Mar 1 to 31, 2024

****Data as of February 16, 2024

Toast Hip-Hopโ€™s 50th Anniversary With Our Special Playlist Hub, Murals, Animated Shorts, and More

Fifty years ago, hip-hop was born in the Bronx. And today, it continues to influence music and culture on a global scale. To celebrate this massive milestone over the next month, weโ€™re creating murals in some of hip-hopโ€™s biggest capitals, giving fans a personalized hip-hop listening experience with our DJ, and releasing a series of animated shorts. But to kick off the festivities, weโ€™re launching the Hip-Hop Turns 50 hub.

Highlighting the contributions of hip-hopโ€™s greats, this special destination will live on-platform over the next month and house more than 40 global playlists that reflect the various eras, regions, and trends that have shaped the genre over the last half-century. This includes many of our top data-driven and editorially curated playlists, as well as dedicated shelves for the 50 most-streamed rappers and hip-hop albums on Spotify.ย 

โ€œWe wanted to acknowledge the anniversary in more than one way. Three months ago, we kicked off conversations on social media with our Top 50 Hip-Hop lists and are now showcasing how hip-hopโ€™s and Spotifyโ€™s history intersects,โ€ said Carl Chery, Creative Director, Head of Urban Music, Spotify. โ€œThroughout August, we’re paying homage to some of the artists that paved the way in their own cities with murals and billboards, creating an animated shorts series narrated by artists, and built out a destination on platform that features a variety of playlists from around the world. Stay tuned for moreโ€”here’s to the next 50″

Fans can dive into the best hip-hop songs of each decade with special curations for the โ€™80s, โ€™90s, โ€™00s, and โ€™10s, as well as the โ€™20s, where listeners can tune in to RapCaviar, our flagship hip-hop playlist, to find the best of hip-hop today. As part of the global hip-hop shelfโ€”which features playlists like Spotify Italyโ€™s Plus Ultra, Spotify Indiaโ€™s Rap 91, Spotify Koreaโ€™s KrOWN, Spotify U.K.โ€™s Who We Be, the Spotify Middle Eastโ€™s Arab Hip-Hop, and Spotify Philippinesโ€™ Kayle Hip-Hopโ€”weโ€™re showcasing the hottest, freshest, and most diverse hip-hop sounds being created around the world.

Weโ€™re also revisiting some of our editorsโ€™ top picks through our 50 years of hip-hop shelf, which features episodes from podcasts like the New York Timesโ€™s Popcast and Fab 5 Freddyโ€™s 50 Years of Hip-Hop, as well as Spotify Originals like The RapCaviar Podcast, Dissect, The Ringer Music Show, and Nas and Miss Infoโ€™s The Bridge.ย 

You can check out more of For the Recordโ€™s hip-hop content from over the years by visiting our special Hip-Hop Turns 50 hub.ย 

Spotify celebrates in hip-hopโ€™s biggest meccas

To honor some of hip-hopโ€™s biggest game changers, Spotify is collaborating with illustrator and image-maker Raj Dhunna to design large-scale murals and billboards. These pieces will put a spotlight on artists in their respective hometowns and depict the ways rapโ€™s most influential sounds spread from region to region.ย 

In New York, Spotify will unveil a mural acknowledging the history of drill as it grew from its origins in Chicago with legends like Chief Keef, and expanded into London and Brooklyn with artists like 808 Melo and Pop Smoke. A second mural will spotlight the impact of women in hip-hop and feature icons like Lilโ€™ Kim and Cardi B.ย 

In Atlanta, Raj will create a mural that celebrates the evolution of trap music, which was pioneered by Atlantaโ€™s own T.I. and cultivated into a global phenomenon by artists like New Yorkโ€™s Arcรกngel.

Rajโ€™s designs will also appear on billboards in Miami and Los Angeles. The L.A. billboard will feature Dr. Dre and Mustard, two of the cityโ€™s musical titans, with a tagline that reads โ€œLong live the West Coast sound. Hip-hop is everywhere.โ€ The Miami billboard, meanwhile, will pay tribute to the provocative sounds of the regionโ€™s most influential women rap acts.

Spotify will also commemorate hip-hopโ€™s growth in Mexico and pay homage to its current and foundational artists with a mural that features over 15 Mexican hip-hop artists, including Akwid, Cartel de Santa, Santa Fe Klan, and Gera Mx.

The party continues

In addition to the on-platform destinations and custom murals, our AI-powered DJ will provide expert hip-hop commentary all month long on Spotify, supplying aficionados with cultural context about musical legends and retracing how hip-hop has grown through history.

To close out the month, Spotify will debut editorially curated animated shorts that underscore hip-hopโ€™s influence in over nine countries, featuring narrations from artists.ย 

Our celebration of hip-hopโ€™s 50th anniversary will let fans discover and connect with artists of the past, present, and future. But this is only the start. Stay tuned for updates throughout the month as we commemorate one of the most beloved genres in the world.ย 

Hit play on our flagship RapCaviar playlist and discover the artists who are making their mark in hip-hopโ€™s history books.ย 

Explore the Innovative Sounds of Korean Hip-Hop Through Our Spotify Singles Series โ€˜HANโ€™

In February, we teamed up with Koreaโ€™s HIPHOPPLAYA community to launch HAN, a Spotify Singles series spotlighting the latest sounds in K-hip-hop. Featuring prominent K-hip-hop and R&B artists like Jay Park, Kid Milli, Blase, MIRANI, and LOOPY, HAN has allowed fans around the world to discover the complex Korean emotion of the same name.ย ย 

The word han has no direct translation in English, but it refers to a deeply ingrained feeling of resentment, sorrow, bitterness, anger, sadness and regret that arises from the historical and cultural experiences collectively shared by Koreans. For our featured artists, it was this inner sense of han that became a central theme and inspiration as they expressed themselves musically and showcased their talents for fans around the world.ย 

As part of HAN, over the span of five weeks, we released six unique Spotify Singles featuring 21 different artists. The songs also received extra exposure through KrOWN, Spotify’s global K-hip-hop playlist with more than 470,000 followers.

Keep reading to learn more about each Spotify Single featured in the series.

โ€œSeoul Cityโ€ by Kid Milli, Loopy, MIRANI, and sAewoo

We kicked off HAN with the sophisticated and dystopian “Seoul City,” which brought Kid Milli, Loopy, and MIRANI together with producer sAewoo.

“The production process was refreshing. It was nice to collaborate with a bunch of artists and have our distinct perspectives on the same theme come together on a single track,” MIRANI commented.

โ€œYGโ€ by Fleeky Bang, Royal 44, Polodared, and YEOHO

For the second single, “YG,” emcees Fleeky Bang, Royal 44, Polodared linked up with producer YEOHO to create a song that reflects their idiosyncratic personalities.ย 

“I wanted to try something new since all of the artists on this track are up-and-comers,โ€ YEOHO remarked. โ€œI’m pleased that the track captures the charisma and ambition of each artist.”ย 

โ€œWHIP!โ€ by sokodomo, Don Mills, viceversa, and SMUGGLERS

Next up was “WHIP,” which saw Don Mills, viceversa, and SMUGGLERS hop on a beat from sokodomo.ย 

“I hope the combination of each artistโ€™s unique style sounds fresh for fans around the world,” said rapper Don Mills, while viceversa added: “It’s great to be able to take part in HAN and show the world that there are artists like us.โ€

โ€œGrrrโ€ by Blase, BlackNut, Jimmy Paige, Dok2, and SMUGGLERS

The fourth Spotify Single was “Grrr,โ€ a collaboration by Blase, BlackNut, Jimmy Paige, Dok2, and SMUGGLERS.ย 

“As soon as I saw the artist lineup, I was on board. I expect HAN to build momentum for K-hip-hop, establish itself as a genre and expand globally,” said Blase.

โ€œApe Freestyleโ€ by Keith Ape and PEEJAY

The fifth song in the series, โ€œApe Freestyle,โ€ takes English and Korean rhymes from emcee Keith Ape and pairs them with a beat from PEEJAY that was inspired by hip-hopโ€™s boom-bap era.ย 

โ€œRock With Youโ€ by Jay Park, KATIE, and WOOGIE

The final song to be released as part of the HAN series is โ€œRock With You.โ€ Bringing the worlds of hip-hop and R&B together, Jay Park and KATIE lend their soothing voices to a laid-back beat produced by the trend-setting WOOGIE.

For fans who want to dive deeper into HAN, check out the official video podcast featuring exclusive behind-the-scenes content of our featured artists hard at work in the studio.

 

K-Hip-Hop Star Huh Is Ready to Take On the World as Our Newest RADAR Korea Artist

Korean artist Huh looking directly at the camera. He is wearing a pink jacket and there are city building in the background

Since its launch in 2020, RADAR has served as Spotifyโ€™s program to showcase emerging artists from all around the world, supporting them and taking their talents to the global musical stage. The programโ€™s South Korean initiative, in particular, has introduced artists like AleXa, ASH ISLAND, NMIXX, and SOLE to the world, revealing the countryโ€™s breadth of promising new talent.ย ย 

And this month, hip-hop sensation Huh is stepping up as the first RADAR Korea artist of 2023.ย 

Huh made his debut in 2019 when he appeared on the ninth season of the popular Mnet rap competition Show Me the Money. He caught the eye of competition team leaders Choiza and Gaeko of Dynamicduo, who later invited him to join their Amoeba Culture label. Huh hit the ground running with a string of singles and live performances, and the release of his debut album, 926. Last year, Huh returned to Show Me the Money, where he wowed audiences with his track โ€œMidnight Law.โ€

Now he graces the cover of the official RADAR Korea playlist.ย 

โ€œIโ€™m excited to be able to connect with listeners around the world and introduce my own colors and music as an artist through Spotifyโ€™s RADAR program,โ€ Huh told For the Record. โ€œIโ€™m grateful for the opportunity Spotify has given me as the first RADAR Korea artist of this year, and Iโ€™ll continue to showcase who I am and the music I love.โ€ย ย 

This is just the latest example of Spotifyโ€™s commitment to spreading the innovative sounds of Korean hip-hop throughout the world. In addition to the relaunch of our global K-hip-hop playlist KrOWN, Spotify partnered with Amoeba Culture in January to launch the K-hip-hop Rookies program, which aims to support rising talent in Korean hip-hop.โ€ฏย 

Listen to more of Huh and the amazing new talent in the RADAR Korea playlist.

Watch 6 Iconic Korean Hip-Hop Artists Explain How the Genre Has Captured the Hearts of Fans Around the World

In South Korea, hip-hop has not only evolved into an essential part of the music scene, but also a big part of the countryโ€™s pop culture. While K-Pop has been taking over the world, Korean hip-hop has also started to gain international popularity, with K-hip-hop artists expanding their presence in the global market. With the growing interest from fans and listeners worldwide, Spotify launched KrOWN in September of this year, our official global Korean hip-hop playlist (formerly known as K-Hip-Hop +82). KrOWN serves as a bridge between K-hip-hop and music fans around the world, ultimately elevating Korean hip-hop artists and culture.ย 

To dive further into the genre, uncover what makes K-hip-hop unique to the world, and explore the musicโ€™s roots, Spotify sat down with some of the most iconic artists in the scene.

Meet some of the key players who have propelled the growth of K-hip-hop:ย ย 

  • Tiger JK: The history of hip-hop in South Korea is generally considered to have begun in the 1990s with iconic figures like Tiger JK helping the genre become mainstream. Often referred to as the godfather of K-hip-hop, the rapper was also a founding member of the group Drunken Tiger. โ€œBack then, every day was like war, and finding a place to perform was almost impossible. But it was so much fun,โ€ Tiger JK recalls. โ€œAnd the best trophy for us at the time was having three or four fans walk up to us in the subway and share which lyrics and rhymes they liked about our song.โ€
  • Yoon Mirae: Yoon debuted in 1997 and is recognized as an icon in Korea. She runs the record label Feel Ghood Music with her husband, Tiger JK. โ€œIf you are a fan of hip-hop, you canโ€™t help but be a fan of K-hip-hop,โ€ she says. โ€œA lot of artists in Korea are just really that good, and a lot of MCsโ€”especially people like Tiger JKโ€”stay grounded to their roots and want to show their love and appreciation for the Korean culture we came fromโ€ฆ I think people recognize that.โ€

  • Dynamicduo (consisting of CHOIZA and Gaeko): The K-hip-hop scene began to coalesce further in the 2000s, as the genreโ€™s top artists continuously challenged themselves to bring the sound forward. In 2006, the iconic group Dynamicduo established hip-hop record label Amoeba Culture, which has since become a home to various prominent artists.

  • Jay Park: Fast-forward to the present, and Jay Parkโ€”rapper, singer-songwriter, record producer, and entrepreneurโ€”believes the overall popularity of Korean culture around the world has benefitted K-hip-hop as well. Having started his career in the K-Pop entertainment business, Jay Park is now a renowned multifaceted talent and one of the most streamed Korean hip-hop artists worldwide.ย ย 

  • The Quiett: The Quiett holds a strong presence in South Koreaโ€™s hip-hop scene with over two decades of experience in the space. A rapper, composer, and record producer widely known for founding major hip-hop record labels (including Illionaire Records and Ambition Musik), the artist thinks back to when he first started as a rapper and to the exciting present of the scene, now filled with passionate, unique talents.ย 

Not only has the genre become a significant part of the music culture in South Korea, but it has also emerged as a form of entertainment, including TV shows, festivals, and films, enjoyed across many generations.ย 

In addition to the campaign video available on KrOWN (via Spotify Clips) and Spotify’s official global YouTube channel, starting mid December, the KrOWN playlist will be taken over each week by one of the artists featured in the video. Through the KrOWN playlist takeover campaign, Yoon Mirae and Tiger JK, Dynamicduo, The Quiett, and Jay Park will each select 10 of their favorite tracks to be added at the top of the KrOWN playlist for one full week. Interviews of each artist will also be unveiled on the platform.

Spotify Fans in South Korea Can Now Enjoy More Than 4 Million Podcasts From Local and Global Creators

Lead image of shows included in Spotify Korea's podcast launch

In just under two years, Spotify has established itself as a destination for Korean music fans and artists through playlists like K-Pop ON! (์˜จ) and KrOWN. Now we want to do the same for podcasts.ย 

Starting today, Spotify Korea listeners will have access to more than 4 million podcasts worldwide. This includes global podcasts like TED Talks Daily, TED Business, BBCโ€™s Global News Podcast, and the New York Timesโ€™ The Daily; Spotify Originals like Batman Unburied, Kim Kardashianโ€™s The System, and Meghan Markleโ€™s Archetypes; and Spotify Exclusives like Myths Of The World and Alex Cooperโ€™s Call Her Daddy.

Weโ€™re also launching a podcast hub exclusively for South Korean listeners. This one-stop destination can help Spotify Korea listeners find the perfect podcast through personalized playlists and spotlights on local content. Some of the regional podcasts the hub will highlight include Confidentiality by Vivo (comedy), Leestar Radio (sports), Sun Kimโ€™s Relentless World History (educational), Weird Mysterious Stories by Braden (true crime), Daebak Show by Eric Nam (music), Check It Out (arts & entertainment), The Psychiatrists (lifestyle & health), Intelligence Play by Jiyoon Kim (news & politics), Two Women in Talk (story), and more.ย 

In addition to providing new content for listeners, weโ€™ve also localized our podcast creation tool, Anchor, in Korean. This will make it easier for Korean creators to openly record, edit, and distribute podcasts to Spotify and other services in minutesโ€”all for free.

To learn more about what all this means for the South Korean podcast market, For the Record spoke with four of South Koreaโ€™s renowned creators: Eun-i Song, Eric Nam, Jaekuk Lee, and the Leestar Team.


Eun-i Song

Eun-i Song is the founder and CEO of Content Lab VIVO, as well as Media Lab Seesaw, a content creation and management company. She is also a household name in South Korea, where she is highly acclaimed as a comedian and for her pioneering content creation and distribution work with VIVO. Her podcast, Song Eun-i and Kim Sookโ€™s Confidentiality, is now available on Spotify.

What do you like most about podcasts?

Since podcasts are not organized by broadcasting companies and do not require a large amount of production costs, the fact that anyone can create their own program is the biggest attraction. From the producerโ€™s perspective, podcasts provide room to take risks with ideas that could not be done in broadcast, allowing for more diverse and creative content.ย 

How do you think the podcast market and listenership has changed since 2015, when your show, Song Eun-i and Kim Sookโ€™s Confidentiality, first launched?

Photo of Eun-i Song posing against a white backdrop

Eun-i Song

When our podcast, Song Eun-i and Kim Sookโ€™s Confidentiality, first started, the majority of popular podcasts were focused on politics. Now it seems like podcast genres are branching out to include entertainment, economy, and self helpโ€“related content. Similarly, the podcast market is increasingly looking at the older generationsโ€”who are familiar with radio culture and political contentโ€”and has expanded to include content pioneers who are bringing a diversity of content that hasnโ€™t been given much podcast attention in the past.

Looking at the local entertainment industry in general, what kind of topics or content for audio/podcast services do you expect to gather popularity in the future?

I think the biggest advantage of audio and podcast content is that it allows people to multitask. Iโ€™ve heard that the listeners of our podcast like to do so while commuting, working in the office, doing design work, or working in the hospital. And now more audio content such as audio dramas and audio movies are in active production, and a lot of entertainment audio content with broadcasters is in the works. Listeners are selecting and enjoying content according to their individual tastes, and their preferences are constantly changing. Podcasts have also diversified alongside listenersโ€™ tastes, and I hope that eclectic, genre-defying content will be introduced in the near future.ย 

With Spotifyโ€™s opening up of podcasts to listeners in South Korea, what are your expectations for Spotify?

If a variety of different worldwide content flows through a global podcast platform such as Spotify to South Korea, the range of choices for local listeners will expand and I think the overall pie of the industry will also increase. I expect the podcast market to grow bigger and attract more creators as the demand grows.


Eric Nam

Spotify podcast cover art for the Daebak Show

A multitalented veteran in the entertainment industry with fans around the world, Eric Nam is an ever-evolving artist, a singer-songwriter, a K-Pop artist, a CEO, and a podcaster. His globally popular podcast, Daebak Show, is now available on Spotify.

You introduced K-Pop as a genre and its artists through your Daebak Show. Was there a specific reason as to why you started the podcast?

Originally, I wanted to create content for international K-Pop fans because they give so much love to Korea and to K-Pop artists. After meeting English-speaking K-Pop fans, I thought it might be a more accessible way for fans to hear behind-the-scenes stories, learn more about Korean music and culture, and also get to know some of their favorite artists through stories and interviews theyโ€™ve never heard before. In addition, Iโ€™ve always wanted to host my own talk show of sorts, perhaps because of my background in interviewing. We thought that putting a podcast together would be a great way to start without overcomplicating the process.

Portrait of Eric Nam posing in front of a mirror

Eric Nam

Whatโ€™s one tip youโ€™d share about Spotifyโ€™s podcast creation tool as a podcast creator yourself?

Spotify is such an amazing platform, particularly for international reach, and it provides incredible analytics so you can track where your content gets the most engagement.ย 

With Spotifyโ€™s opening up of podcasts to listeners in South Korea, what are your expectations for Spotify?

Iโ€™m very excited for Spotify to finally be launching their podcast service in Korea because Iโ€™m personally a huge fan of the format. They’re engaging, entertaining, and educational in so many ways. I hope that Spotify users will be able to find not only their favorite songs, but also their favorite podcasts on the platform, and that they give Daebak Show a listen! Please follow us!ย 

What are some of your favorite podcasts, apart from your Daebak Show?

The Daily by the NYTimes,ย The Tablo Podcast, and Smartless.


Jaekuk Lee (of Momocon)

Spotify podcast cover art for Sun Kim's Relentless World History

Jaekuk Lee is the general manager and founding member of web and audio content company Momocon (an abbreviation of โ€˜more than mobile contentsโ€). As an award-winning broadcast writer, he has extensive experience in the South Korean broadcasting industry, including radio. Momoconโ€™s podcast, Sun Kimโ€™s Relentless World History, is now available on Spotify.

What do you like most about podcasts?

I wish I could answer this with the local meme that says โ€œfaster than others, different from othersโ€ as podcasts provide way faster and more accurate content than radio broadcasts. In addition to allowing listeners to multitask, they are more accessible and offer more diversified informationโ€”even compared to video content.

Youโ€™ve previously produced numerous memorable podcasts. As a producer, what do you think is the most important factor podcasters should consider when creating a show?

Headshot of Jaekuk Lee Smiling

Jaekuk Lee

I have experimented a lot with podcast content and come to the conclusion that โ€œfunโ€ is the most important factor. After all, entertainment takes up consumersโ€™ time, and I do not think anything without fun can appeal to them. Whether the content is historical, therapeutic, or informational, there must be something โ€œfunโ€ . . . followed by the contentโ€™s objective.

You made a big hit with the show Sun Kimโ€™s Relentless World History. How did you come across creating short-form audio content on history?

Everyone loves history-based content, but this is especially true for Koreans. The way history can be interpreted in many different ways also makes it a great topic for discussion. Based on my past experiences as a radio writer, breaking news that would wake people up and short stories that are easy to understand are effective for morning broadcasts. Meanwhile, somewhat comfortable, longer stories that donโ€™t need clear understanding are suitable for nighttime broadcasts to put listeners to sleep. I produced Sun Kimโ€™s Relentless World History with hopes to provide a segment of history that is fun and easy to approach on the way to and from work. I believe that an interpretation of history could also become meme-worthy if it is fun.

In terms of content format and genre, what innovative trends do you think podcasters need to pay attention to moving forward?

I would say audio dramas and audio movies. Sound is the first form of entertainment humans encounter, and we have cultivated our imagination by listening to our parentsโ€™ voices in the womb. While the podcast market has grown through informative content so far, it should take a bigger step toward drama and storytelling through audio. While video content about astronauts on Mars would have to show Mars through the lens, an audio drama could let oneโ€™s imagination loose with the simple statement that an astronaut has arrived on Mars.

With Spotifyโ€™s opening up of podcasts to listeners in South Korea, what are your expectations for Spotify?

Iโ€™m hoping that people can be in touch with a wide range of genres and formats, which can, in turn, activate our national podcast industry. Iโ€™m thinking that global podcasts that scored a hit worldwideโ€”in particular, audio dramas and documentariesโ€”will actively flow in through Spotify, giving listeners more variety and fun. I hope it will be an opportunity for creative people to try more diverse things.


The Leestar Team

Spotify podcast cover art for Leestar Radio

Jongyoon Park and Jooheon Lee, known together as the Leestar Team, are CEOs of the new-media company Lab Choo Jong Yoon. The pair is famous for their soccer-focused video and podcast content, which has attracted a fan base of hardcore sports fans in South Korea. Their podcast, Leestar Radio, is now available on Spotify.

You have achieved success in the sports podcasting world with the rare distinction of having worked as a professional commentator and caster in the past. Could you tell us more about the state of sports podcasting in South Korea?

Photo of Leestar Team members Jongyoon Park eating a corndog and Jeonhoon Lee smiling and holding a keyboard like a guitar

The Leestar Team

The sports sector makes up a relatively small portion of the podcast market. Generally, politics, culture, and entertainment are the dominant genres, and they seem to be preferred by listeners because they are easily relatable. Meanwhile, sports podcasts are often found and listened to by those who are specifically interested in sports. This niche allows sports podcasts to secure a fixed fan base.

What do you like most about podcasts?

Podcasts have a more relaxed vibe compared to regular radio programs. Also, people can listen to podcasts at any time and pause them whenever they want, unlike radio. Moreover, anyone can record and share their podcast content with others.

ํŒŸ์บ์ŠคํŠธ ์„œ๋น„์Šค ์˜คํ”ˆ ๊ธฐ๋…, ์Šคํฌํ‹ฐํŒŒ์ด๊ฐ€ ์„ ๋ณด์ด๋Š” ํ•œ๊ตญ ํฌ๋ฆฌ์—์ดํ„ฐ๋“ค๊ณผ์˜ ์ธํ„ฐ๋ทฐ

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์Šคํฌํ‹ฐํŒŒ์ด๋Š” ์ง€๋‚œํ•ด 2์›” ์„ ๋ณด์ธ ์Œ์› ์ŠคํŠธ๋ฆฌ๋ฐ ์„œ๋น„์Šค์— ์ด์–ด ๋ฐ”๋กœ ์˜ค๋Š˜, ํ•œ๊ตญ์— ํŒŸ์บ์ŠคํŠธ ์„œ๋น„์Šค๋ฅผ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด์ œ ๊ตญ๋‚ด ์Šคํฌํ‹ฐํŒŒ์ด ์ฒญ์ทจ์ž๋“ค์€ 8์ฒœ๋งŒ๊ฐœ ์ด์ƒ์˜ ์Œ์›๊ณผ ๋”๋ถˆ์–ด ์ „ ์„ธ๊ณ„ 4๋ฐฑ๋งŒ ๊ฐœ ์ด์ƒ์˜ ๊ธ€๋กœ๋ฒŒ ํŒŸ์บ์ŠคํŠธ ์นดํƒˆ๋กœ๊ทธ๋ฅผ ์ด์šฉํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๊ฒŒ ๋์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

ํ•œ๊ตญ ํŒŸ์บ์ŠคํŠธ ์„œ๋น„์Šค ๊ฐœ์‹œ์— ๋”ฐ๋ผ ์Šคํฌํ‹ฐํŒŒ์ด๋Š” ๊ตญ๋‚ด ์ฒญ์ทจ์ž๋“ค์„ ์œ„ํ•œ ํŒŸ์บ์ŠคํŠธ ํ—ˆ๋ธŒ๋ฅผ ์ถ”๊ฐ€ํ–ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•ด ๋‹ค์ฑ„๋กœ์šด ์ฃผ์ œ ๋ฐ ์นดํ…Œ๊ณ ๋ฆฌ๋ณ„ ์†์‰ฌ์šด ํ”„๋กœ๊ทธ๋žจ ํƒ์ƒ‰์ด ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•ด์กŒ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ง€๊ธˆ ๋ฐ”๋กœ ํŒŸ์บ์ŠคํŠธ ํ—ˆ๋ธŒ์—์„œ ๋‹ค์Œ๊ณผ ๊ฐ™์ด ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œ ์ฝ˜ํ…์ธ ๋ฅผ ๋งŒ๋‚˜๋ณผ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๋ฟ๋งŒ ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ ํฌ๋ฆฌ์—์ดํ„ฐ๋“ค์„ ์œ„ํ•ด ์Šคํฌํ‹ฐํŒŒ์ด๊ฐ€ ๋ณด์œ ํ•œ ์„ธ๊ณ„ ์ตœ๋Œ€ ํŒŸ์บ์ŠคํŠธ ์ œ์ž‘ ๋ฐ ์œ ํ†ต ํ”Œ๋žซํผ์ธ โ€˜์•ต์ปค(Anchor)โ€™์˜ ํ•œ๊ตญ์–ด ์„œ๋น„์Šค ์—ญ์‹œ ์ง€์›๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์•ต์ปค๋Š” ์‰ฝ๊ณ  ๋น ๋ฅด๊ฒŒ ํŒŸ์บ์ŠคํŠธ๋ฅผ ์ œ์ž‘ํ•˜๊ณ  ํŽธ์ง‘ํ•˜์—ฌ ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œ ํ”Œ๋žซํผ์— ๋ฐฐํฌํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋„๋ก ํ•ด์ค„ ๋ฟ๋งŒ ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ, ์ฒญ์ทจ์ž์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ์™€ ์ธ์‚ฌ์ดํŠธ๋„ ์ œ๊ณตํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์•ต์ปค์˜ ์ด ๋ชจ๋“  ๊ธฐ๋Šฅ์€ ๋ฌด๋ฃŒ๋กœ ๋ˆ„๊ตฌ๋‚˜ ์ž์œ ๋กญ๊ฒŒ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์Šคํฌํ‹ฐํŒŒ์ด์˜ ํŒŸ์บ์ŠคํŠธ ์„œ๋น„์Šค ๊ฐœ์‹œ๊ฐ€ ํ•œ๊ตญ ํŒŸ์บ์ŠคํŠธ ์‹œ์žฅ์— ์–ด๋–ค ์˜๋ฏธ๋ฅผ ๊ฐ€์ ธ์˜ค๊ณ , ๋˜ ์–ด๋–ค ์˜ํ–ฅ์„ ๋ฏธ์น ๊นŒ์š”? ์ด์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์ž์„ธํ•œ ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋‚˜๋ˆ„๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ํ•œ๊ตญ์˜ ์ธ๊ธฐ ํŒŸ์บ์ŠคํŠธ ํฌ๋ฆฌ์—์ดํ„ฐ์ด์ž ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œ ๋ถ„์•ผ์—์„œ ํ™œ๋ฐœํžˆ ํ™œ๋™ ์ค‘์ธ ์†ก์€์ด, ์—๋ฆญ ๋‚จ, ๋ชจ๋ชจ์ฝ˜ ์ด์žฌ๊ตญ ๋ณธ๋ถ€์žฅ, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์ด์Šคํƒ€ํŒ€(๋ฐ•์ข…ํ›ˆ, ์ด์ฃผํ—Œ ๋žฉ์ถ”์ข…์œค ๊ณต๋™ ๋Œ€ํ‘œ์ด์‚ฌ)๊ณผ ์ธํ„ฐ๋ทฐ๋ฅผ ์ง„ํ–‰ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋“ค์˜ ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ํ™•์ธํ•ด ๋ณด์„ธ์š”!


์†ก์€์ด

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์†ก์€์ด๋Š” ์ฝ˜ํ…์ธ  ์ œ์ž‘์‚ฌ โ€˜์ปจํ…์ธ ๋žฉ ๋น„๋ณดโ€™์™€ ๋งค๋‹ˆ์ง€๋จผํŠธ์‚ฌ โ€˜๋ฏธ๋””์–ด๋žฉ ์‹œ์†Œโ€™์˜ ๋Œ€ํ‘œ๋‹ค. ํ•œ๊ตญ์—์„œ ์ธ๊ธฐ ์ฝ”๋ฏธ๋””์–ธ์œผ๋กœ ๋ช…์„ฑ์„ ์ด์–ด๊ฐ€๊ณ  ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, โ€˜์ปจํ…์ธ ๋žฉ ๋น„๋ณดโ€™๋ฅผ ์„ค๋ฆฝํ•˜์—ฌ ์ฝ˜ํ…์ธ  ์ œ์ž‘ ๋ฐ ๋ฐฐํฌ๋ฅผ ์„ ๋„ํ•œ ์„ ๊ตฌ์ž๋กœ๋„ ๋†’์€ ํ‰๊ฐ€๋ฅผ ๋ฐ›๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค. ์†ก์€์ด๊ฐ€ ์ง„ํ–‰ํ•˜๋Š” โ€˜์†ก์€์ด ๊น€์ˆ™์˜ ๋น„๋ฐ€๋ณด์žฅโ€™์€ ์Šคํฌํ‹ฐํŒŒ์ด์—์„œ ์ฒญ์ทจํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค.ย 

ํŒŸ์บ์ŠคํŠธ์˜ ๋งค๋ ฅ์ด ๋ฌด์—‡์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•˜์‹œ๋‚˜์š”?

ํŒŸ์บ์ŠคํŠธ๋Š” ๋ฐฉ์†ก์‚ฌ์— ํŽธ์„ฑ๋˜์–ด ์žˆ์ง€ ์•Š๊ณ , ๋น„๊ต์  ํฐ ์ œ์ž‘๋น„๊ฐ€ ๋“ค์ง€ ์•Š์•„ ์‚ฌ์‹ค์ƒ ๋ˆ„๊ตฌ๋‚˜ ๋ณธ์ธ์˜ ๋ฐฉ์†ก์„ ๋งŒ๋“ค์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด ๊ฐ€์žฅ ํฐ ๋งค๋ ฅ์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ œ์ž‘์ž ์ž…์žฅ์—์„œ๋Š” ๋ฐฉ์†ก์—์„œ ํ•˜์ง€ ๋ชปํ–ˆ๋˜ ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ์•„์ด๋””์–ด๋ฅผ ์‹œ๋„ํ•ด ๋ณผ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์–ด ๋” ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•˜๊ณ  ๊ธฐ๋ฐœํ•œ ์ฝ˜ํ…์ธ ๋“ค์ด ๋‚˜์˜ฌ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.ย 

2015๋…„ โ€˜๋น„๋ฐ€๋ณด์žฅโ€™์„ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ•œ ์ดํ›„ 2022๋…„ ํ˜„์žฌ๊นŒ์ง€ ํŒŸ์บ์ŠคํŠธ ์‹œ์žฅ๊ณผ ์ฒญ์ทจ์ž๊ฐ€ ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ๋ณ€ํ™”ํ–ˆ๋‚˜์š”?

Portrait of Eun-i Song posing against a white backdrop

Eun-i Song

2015๋…„ ์†ก์€์ด ๊น€์ˆ™์˜ ๋น„๋ฐ€๋ณด์žฅ์„ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ•  ๋‹น์‹œ ์ธ๊ธฐ ํŒŸ์บ์ŠคํŠธ๋Š” ๋Œ€๋ถ€๋ถ„ ์ •์น˜๋‚˜ ์‹œ์‚ฌ ์ฝ˜ํ…์ธ ์˜€๋˜ ๋ฐ ๋ฐ˜ํ•ด, ํ˜„์žฌ๋Š” ์˜ˆ๋Šฅ, ๊ฒฝ์ œ, ์ž๊ธฐ๊ฐœ๋ฐœ ๋“ฑ ์žฅ๋ฅด๊ฐ€ ๋‹ค์–‘ํ™”๋˜๋Š” ์ถ”์„ธ์ธ ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ฒญ์ทจ์ž ๋˜ํ•œ ์ดˆ๊ธฐ์—๋Š” ์ •์น˜ ์ฝ˜ํ…์ธ ์™€ ๋ผ๋””์˜ค ๋ฌธํ™”์— ์ต์ˆ™ํ•œ ์ผ๋ถ€ ๊ธฐ์„ฑ์„ธ๋Œ€๋“ค์ด์—ˆ๋‹ค๋ฉด ํ˜„์žฌ๋Š” ์˜์ƒ, ์ฑ…, SNS ๋“ฑ ์ฃผ๋ฅ˜ ๋ฌธํ™”๋ฟ๋งŒ ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ ์•„์ง ์ฃผ๋ชฉ๋ฐ›์ง€ ์•Š์€ ์ƒˆ๋กญ๊ณ  ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์„ ์ฐพ์•„ ๋‚˜์„œ๋Š” ์ฝ˜ํ…์ธ  ์„ ๊ตฌ์ž๋“ค๋กœ ํ™•์žฅ๋œ ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™๊ณ ์š”.

์•ž์œผ๋กœ ์–ด๋–ค ์ฃผ์ œ์˜ ์˜ค๋””์˜ค ์ฝ˜ํ…์ธ  ๋ฐ ํŒŸ์บ์ŠคํŠธ๊ฐ€ ์ธ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋Œ ๊ฒƒ์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ์˜ˆ์ƒํ•˜์‹œ๋‚˜์š”?

ํŒŸ์บ์ŠคํŠธ๋ฅผ ๋น„๋กฏํ•œ ์˜ค๋””์˜ค ์ฝ˜ํ…์ธ ์˜ ์ด์ ์€ ์ฒญ์ทจ๋ฅผ ํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์ผ์„ ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ ์•„๋‹๊นŒ ์‹ถ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์‹ค์ œ๋กœ ๋น„๋ฐ€๋ณด์žฅ ์ฒญ์ทจ์ž๋“ค๋„ ์šด์ „์ด๋‚˜ ์ถœํ‡ด๊ทผํ•˜๋Š” ์ด๋™์‹œ๊ฐ„์„ ํ™œ์šฉํ•˜๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ ์—…๋ฌด ์ค‘์—๋„ ํŒŸ์บ์ŠคํŠธ๋ฅผ ๋“ฃ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ์•Œ๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ˜„์žฌ ์˜ค๋””์˜ค ๋“œ๋ผ๋งˆ๋‚˜ ์˜ค๋””์˜ค ์˜ํ™”์˜ ์ œ์ž‘๋„ ํ™œ๋ฐœํ•ด์กŒ๊ณ , ๋ฐฉ์†ก์ธ์„ ์„ญ์™ธํ•œ ์˜ˆ๋Šฅํ˜• ์˜ค๋””์˜ค ์ฝ˜ํ…์ธ ๋„ ๋งŽ์ด ๋งŒ๋“ค์–ด์ง€๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.ย 

๋งŽ์€ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์ด ๊ฐ์ž ์ทจํ–ฅ์— ๋”ฐ๋ผ ์ฝ˜ํ…์ธ ๋ฅผ ์„ ๋ณ„ํ•˜์—ฌ ์ฆ๊ธฐ๊ณ  ์žˆ๊ณ  ์ทจํ–ฅ์ด ๋‹ค์–‘ํ™”๋˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๊ธฐ๋„ ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํŒŸ์บ์ŠคํŠธ ๋˜ํ•œ ํ•œ ๊ฐ€์ง€ ์žฅ๋ฅด์— ์น˜์šฐ์น˜์ง€ ์•Š๊ณ  ๋”์šฑ ๋‹ค์ฑ„๋กœ์šด ์ฝ˜ํ…์ธ ๊ฐ€ ๋งŽ์ด ๋‚˜์˜ค๋ฉด ์ข‹๊ฒ ๋‹ค๋Š” ์ƒ๊ฐ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์Šคํฌํ‹ฐํŒŒ์ด์˜ ๊ตญ๋‚ด ํŒŸ์บ์ŠคํŠธ ์„œ๋น„์Šค ์‹œ์ž‘์— ๋”ฐ๋ผ ๊ธฐ๋Œ€ํ•˜๋Š” ์ ์ด ์žˆ๋‚˜์š”?

์Šคํฌํ‹ฐํŒŒ์ด์™€ ๊ฐ™์€ ๊ธ€๋กœ๋ฒŒ ํŒŸ์บ์ŠคํŠธ ํ”Œ๋žซํผ์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œ ๊ธ€๋กœ๋ฒŒ ์ฝ˜ํ…์ธ ๊ฐ€ ์œ ์ž…๋˜๋ฉด ํŒŸ์บ์ŠคํŠธ ์ฝ˜ํ…์ธ  ์ด์šฉ์ž๋กœ์„œ ์„ ํƒ์˜ ํญ์ด ๋„“์–ด์ง€๊ณ , ์ด๋กœ ์ธํ•ด ์ด์šฉ์ž ํŒŒ์ด๋„ ๋Š˜์–ด๋‚˜์ง€ ์•Š์„๊นŒ ์‹ถ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ˆ˜์š” ์ฆ๊ฐ€์— ๋”ฐ๋ผ ํŒŸ์บ์ŠคํŠธ ์‹œ์žฅ์ด ๋” ์ปค์ง€๊ณ  ํฌ๋ฆฌ์—์ดํ„ฐ๋„ ๋” ๋งŽ์•„์ง€๊ธธ ๊ธฐ๋Œ€ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.


์—๋ฆญ ๋‚จ

์—๋ฆญ ๋‚จ์€ ์•„ํ‹ฐ์ŠคํŠธ, ์‹ฑ์–ด์†ก๋ผ์ดํ„ฐ, CEO์ด์ž ํŒŸ์บ์ŠคํŠธ ํฌ๋ฆฌ์—์ดํ„ฐ๋กœ ํ™œ๋™ ์ค‘์ด๋‹ค. ๋‹ค์žฌ๋‹ค๋Šฅํ•œ ๋ฉด๋ชจ๋กœ ์ „ ์„ธ๊ณ„ ํŒฌ๋“ค์˜ ์‚ฌ๋ž‘์„ ๋ฐ›๋Š” ์—๋ฆญ ๋‚จ์˜ ํŒŸ์บ์ŠคํŠธ โ€˜๋Œ€๋ฐ•์‡ผโ€™๋Š” ์Šคํฌํ‹ฐํŒŒ์ด์—์„œ ๋“ค์„ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค.

โ€˜๋Œ€๋ฐ•์‡ผโ€™์—์„œ ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œ KํŒ ์Œ์•…๊ณผ ์•„ํ‹ฐ์ŠคํŠธ๋ฅผ ์†Œ๊ฐœํ•˜์…จ๋Š”๋ฐ, KํŒ ์œ„์ฃผ์˜ ํ† ํฌ์‡ผ๋ฅผ ์ง„ํ–‰ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋œ ๊ณ„๊ธฐ๋‚˜ ์ด์œ ๊ฐ€ ๋ฌด์—‡์ธ๊ฐ€์š”?

๊ธ€๋กœ๋ฒŒ KํŒ ํŒฌ๋“ค์ด ํ•œ๊ตญ๊ณผ KํŒ ์•„ํ‹ฐ์ŠคํŠธ๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ๋„ˆ๋ฌด๋‚˜๋„ ํฐ ๊ด€์‹ฌ์„ ๋ณด์ด๊ณ  ์‚ฌ๋ž‘์„ ์ฃผ๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์— ๊ทธ๋“ค์„ ์œ„ํ•œ ์ฝ˜ํ…์ธ ๋ฅผ ๋งŒ๋“ค๊ณ  ์‹ถ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋˜ ์ค‘ ์˜์–ด๊ถŒ์˜ KํŒ ํŒฌ๋“ค๊ณผ ๋งŒ๋‚˜๊ฒŒ ๋๊ณ , ์ด๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ํŒŸ์บ์ŠคํŠธ๊ฐ€ KํŒ ์—…๊ณ„์˜ ๋น„ํ•˜์ธ๋“œ ์Šคํ† ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ๋“ฃ๊ณ , ํ•œ๊ตญ์˜ ์Œ์•…๊ณผ ๋ฌธํ™”๋ฅผ ๋ฐฐ์šฐ๊ณ , ๋˜ ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐ์™€ ์ธํ„ฐ๋ทฐ๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•ด ์ข‹์•„ํ•˜๋Š” ์•„ํ‹ฐ์ŠคํŠธ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๋” ์•Œ์•„๊ฐˆ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ํ†ต๋กœ๊ฐ€ ๋  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๊ฒ ๋‹ค๋Š” ์ƒ๊ฐ์ด ๋“ค์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €๋Š” ์ธํ„ฐ๋ทฐ ์ง„ํ–‰ ๊ฒฝํ—˜์ด ์žˆ๊ธฐ๋„ ํ•ด ํ•ญ์ƒ ์ €๋งŒ์˜ ํ† ํฌ์‡ผ๋ฅผ ์ง„ํ–‰ํ•˜๊ณ  ์‹ถ๊ธฐ๋„ ํ–ˆ์ฃ . ํŒŸ์บ์ŠคํŠธ ์ œ์ž‘์€ ์ด ๋ชจ๋“  ๊ฒƒ์„ ์ด๋ฃจ๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•œ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ์ข‹์€ ์ˆ˜๋‹จ์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

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Eric Nam

ํŒŸ์บ์ŠคํŠธ ํฌ๋ฆฌ์—์ดํ„ฐ๋กœ์„œ ์Šคํฌํ‹ฐํŒŒ์ด์˜ ํŒŸ์บ์ŠคํŠธ ์ œ์ž‘ ํˆด์˜ ํ™œ์šฉ๋ฒ•์ด๋‚˜ ํŒ์ด ์žˆ๋‹ค๋ฉด ๊ณต์œ ํ•ด ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”.

์Šคํฌํ‹ฐํŒŒ์ด๋Š” ์ž์‹ ์˜ ํŒŸ์บ์ŠคํŠธ ์ฝ˜ํ…์ธ ๊ฐ€ ์–ด๋””์—์„œ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ์ธ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ์–ป๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š”์ง€ ๋“ฑ ์ฒญ์ทจ์ž์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๋ถ„์„ ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ๋ฅผ ์ œ๊ณตํ•ด์ฃผ๋Š” ํ›Œ๋ฅญํ•œ ํ”Œ๋žซํผ์œผ๋กœ, ํŠนํžˆ ๊ธ€๋กœ๋ฒŒ ์ฒญ์ทจ์ž ํ™•๋ณด์— ๋งค์šฐ ์œ ์šฉํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.ย 

์Šคํฌํ‹ฐํŒŒ์ด์˜ ๊ตญ๋‚ด ํŒŸ์บ์ŠคํŠธ ์„œ๋น„์Šค ์‹œ์ž‘์— ๋”ฐ๋ผ ๊ธฐ๋Œ€ํ•˜๋Š” ์ ์ด ์žˆ๋‚˜์š”?

์Šคํฌํ‹ฐํŒŒ์ด ํ”Œ๋žซํผ์˜ ์—ด๋ ฌํ•œ ํŒฌ์œผ๋กœ์„œ ์Šคํฌํ‹ฐํŒŒ์ด๊ฐ€ ๋“œ๋””์–ด ํ•œ๊ตญ์— ํŒŸ์บ์ŠคํŠธ ์„œ๋น„์Šค๋ฅผ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ–ˆ๋‹ค๋‹ˆ ๋„ˆ๋ฌด ๊ธฐ์ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์Šคํฌํ‹ฐํŒŒ์ด์˜ ํŒŸ์บ์ŠคํŠธ๋Š” ๋‹ค๋ฐฉ๋ฉด์œผ๋กœ ๋งค๋ ฅ์ ์ด๊ณ  ํฅ๋ฏธ๋กญ๊ณ  ๋˜ ๋ฐฐ์šธ ์ ์ด ๋งŽ์ด ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์Šคํฌํ‹ฐํŒŒ์ด ์ฒญ์ทจ์ž๋“ค์ด ์Šคํฌํ‹ฐํŒŒ์ด์—์„œ ์ข‹์•„ํ•˜๋Š” ์Œ์•…๋ฟ๋งŒ ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ ํŒŸ์บ์ŠคํŠธ๋„ ์ฐพ์•„๋ณด๊ณ , โ€˜๋Œ€๋ฐ•์‡ผโ€™๋„ ๋“ค์–ด๋ด ์ฃผ์‹œ๊ธธ ๋ฐ”๋ž๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €ํฌ ํŒŸ์บ์ŠคํŠธ๋„ ํŒ”๋กœ์šฐ ํ•ด์ฃผ์„ธ์š”!

๋ณธ์ธ์˜ โ€˜๋Œ€๋ฐ•์‡ผโ€™ ์™ธ์— ์ข‹์•„ํ•˜๋Š” ํŒŸ์บ์ŠคํŠธ๋ฅผ ์†Œ๊ฐœํ•ด ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”.

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๋‰ด๋ฏธ๋””์–ด ์˜ˆ๋Šฅ ๋ฐ ์˜ค๋””์˜ค ์ฝ˜ํ…์ธ  ์ œ์ž‘์‚ฌ ๋ชจ๋ชจ์ฝ˜(More than Mobile Contents)์˜ ์ฐฝ๋ฆฝ ๋ฉค๋ฒ„์ธ ์ด์žฌ๊ตญ ๋ณธ๋ถ€์žฅ์€ ๋ผ๋””์˜ค ๋ฐ ๋ฐฉ์†ก ์ž‘๊ฐ€๋กœ ํ™œ๋™ํ•˜๋ฉฐ ํ•œ๊ตญ ๋ฐฉ์†ก ์—…๊ณ„์—์„œ ๋ช…์„ฑ์„ ์Œ“์•˜๋‹ค. ๋ชจ๋ชจ์ฝ˜์˜ ํŒŸ์บ์ŠคํŠธ ์ฝ˜ํ…์ธ  โ€˜์ฌํ‚ด์˜ ์„ธ๊ณ„์‚ฌ ์™„์ „์ •๋ณตโ€™์€ ์Šคํฌํ‹ฐํŒŒ์ด์—์„œ ๋งŒ๋‚˜๋ณผ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค.

ํŒŸ์บ์ŠคํŠธ์˜ ๋งค๋ ฅ์ด ๋ฌด์—‡์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•˜์‹œ๋‚˜์š”?

“๋ˆ„๊ตฌ๋ณด๋‹ค ๋น ๋ฅด๊ฒŒ, ๋‚จ๋“ค๊ณผ๋Š” ๋‹ค๋ฅด๊ฒŒ” ์š”์ฆ˜ ์œ ํ–‰ํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐˆ์œผ๋กœ ๋Œ€๋‹ต์„ ๋Œ€์‹ ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„ ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํŒŸ์บ์ŠคํŠธ๋Š” ์ง€์ƒํŒŒ ๋ผ๋””์˜ค ๋ฐฉ์†ก๊ณผ ๋น„๊ตํ–ˆ์„ ๋•Œ ์ฝ˜ํ…์ธ  ์†๋„์™€ ์ •ํ™•๋„ ๋ฉด์—์„œ ์••๋„์ ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋™์˜์ƒ๊ณผ ๋‹ฌ๋ฆฌ ๋ฉ€ํ‹ฐํƒœ์Šคํ‚น์ด ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•  ๋ฟ๋งŒ ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ, ํ›จ์”ฌ ํŽธํ•˜๊ณ  ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œ ์ •๋ณด๋ฅผ ์–ป์„ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ์ ๋„ ํฐ ๋งค๋ ฅ์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

ํ›Œ๋ฅญํ•˜๊ณ ๋„ ๋‹ค์ฑ„๋กœ์šด ํŒŸ์บ์ŠคํŠธ๋ฅผ ๋‹ค์ˆ˜ ์ œ์ž‘ํ•œ ์ œ์ž‘์ž์˜ ๊ด€์ ์—์„œ ํŒŸ์บ์Šคํ„ฐ๊ฐ€ ํ”„๋กœ๊ทธ๋žจ์„ ๋งŒ๋“ค ๋•Œ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ์ค‘์š”ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๊ณ ๋ คํ•ด์•ผ ํ•  ์ ์ด ์žˆ์„๊นŒ์š”?

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Jaekuk Lee

๊ทธ๋™์•ˆ ์ฝ˜ํ…์ธ ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œ ์‹œ๋„๋ฅผ ๋งŽ์ด ํ•ด๋ดค๋Š”๋ฐ ์—ญ์‹œ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ์ค‘์š”ํ•œ ๊ฑด ์žฌ๋ฏธ์ธ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์—”ํ„ฐํ…Œ์ธ๋จผํŠธ๋Š” ๊ฒฐ๊ตญ ์†Œ๋น„์ž์˜ ์‹œ๊ฐ„์„ ๋บ๋Š” ๊ฑด๋ฐ ์žฌ๋ฏธ๊ฐ€ ์—†์œผ๋ฉด ๊ทธ ๋ฌด์—‡๋„ ์†Œ๋น„์ž์—๊ฒŒ ๋‹ค๊ฐ€๊ฐ€์ง€ ๋ชปํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์—ญ์‚ฌ, ํž๋ง, ์ •๋ณด ๋“ฑ ๋ฌด์—‡์„ ์ „๋‹ฌํ•˜๋“  ๊ฒฐ๊ตญ ์ฝ˜ํ…์ธ ์— ์žˆ์–ด ์ œ์ผ ๋จผ์ € ๊ณ ๋ คํ•ด์•ผ ํ•  ๊ฑด “์žฌ๋ฏธ”๊ณ , ๊ทธ ๋‹ค์Œ์€ ์™œ ๋งŒ๋“ค์–ด์•ผ ํ•˜๋Š”์ง€๋ผ๋Š” “๋ชฉ์ ”์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

โ€˜์ฌํ‚ด์˜ ์„ธ๊ณ„์‚ฌ ์™„์ „์ •๋ณตโ€™์ด ํฌ๊ฒŒ ํžˆํŠธํ–ˆ๋Š”๋ฐ, ์ˆํผ ์˜ค๋””์˜ค ์—ญ์‚ฌ ์ฝ˜ํ…์ธ ๋ฅผ ๋งŒ๋“ค๊ฒŒ ๋œ ๋ฐฐ๊ฒฝ์€ ๋ฌด์—‡์ธ๊ฐ€์š”?

์—ญ์‚ฌ๋Š” ๋ชจ๋‘๊ฐ€ ์ข‹์•„ํ•˜๊ณ  ํŠนํžˆ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋‚˜๋ผ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์ด ์ข‹์•„ํ•˜๋Š” ์ฝ˜ํ…์ธ ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์—ญ์‚ฌ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ํ•ด์„๋„ ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•˜๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์— ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค๊ณผ ํ† ๋ก ํ•˜๊ธฐ์—๋„ ์ข‹์€ ์•„์ดํ…œ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €๋Š” ๋ผ๋””์˜ค ์ž‘๊ฐ€๋ฅผ ์˜ค๋žซ๋™์•ˆ ํ–ˆ๋Š”๋ฐ ์•„์นจ ๋ฐฉ์†ก์—์„œ๋Š” ์ž ์ด ๊นฐ๋งŒํ•œ ์†Œ์‹์„ ํ•œ๋ฒˆ์— ์•Œ์•„๋“ค์„ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๊ฒŒ ๋‹จ๋ฌธ์œผ๋กœ ์“ฐ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด ํšจ๊ณผ์ ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฐ˜๋ฉด ์‹ฌ์•ผ ๋ผ๋””์˜ค์—์„œ๋Š” ๋งˆ์Œ ํŽธํ•œ ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋ฌด์Šจ ๋ง์ธ์ง€ ์ •ํ™•ํžˆ ์ž˜ ๋ชฐ๋ผ๋„ ๋˜๋Š” ์žฅ๋ฌธ์œผ๋กœ ์จ์•ผ ์ฒญ์ทจ์ž๋“ค์ด ํŽธํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์ž ์ž๋ฆฌ์— ๋“ค ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. “์ฌํ‚ด์˜ ์„ธ๊ณ„์‚ฌ ์™„์ „์ •๋ณต”์€ ์ถœํ‡ด๊ทผ๊ธธ์— ์‰ฝ๊ณ  ์žฌ๋ฐŒ๊ฒŒ ์ ‘ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ์—ญ์‚ฌ ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐ ํ•œ ํ† ๋ง‰์„ ์ œ๊ณตํ•˜๊ฒ ๋‹ค๋Š” ์ทจ์ง€์—์„œ ์ œ์ž‘ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์žฌ๋ฐŒ๊ฒŒ ๋งŒ๋“ค๋ฉด ์—ญ์‚ฌ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ํ•ด์„๋„ “๋ฐˆ”์ด ๋  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์œผ๋‹ˆ๊นŒ์š”.

์ฝ˜ํ…์ธ  ํ˜•์‹์ด๋‚˜ ์žฅ๋ฅด ๋ฉด์—์„œ ์•ž์œผ๋กœ ํŒŸ์บ์Šคํ„ฐ๋“ค์ด ๋ˆˆ์—ฌ๊ฒจ๋ด์•ผ ํ•  ํ˜์‹ ์ ์ธ ํŠธ๋ Œ๋“œ๊ฐ€ ์žˆ์„๊นŒ์š”?

์˜ค๋””์˜ค ๋“œ๋ผ๋งˆ์™€ ์˜ค๋””์˜ค ์˜ํ™”๋ผ๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์†Œ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ์ธ๊ฐ„์ด ์ตœ์ดˆ๋กœ ์ ‘ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋˜๋Š” ์—”ํ„ฐํ…Œ์ธ๋จผํŠธ๋กœ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๋ฑƒ์†์—์„œ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ๋ถ€๋ชจ๋‹˜์˜ ๋ชฉ์†Œ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ๋“ค์œผ๋ฉฐ ์ƒ์ƒ๋ ฅ์„ ํ‚ค์›Œ์™”์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํŒŸ์บ์ŠคํŠธ ์‹œ์žฅ์ด ๊ทธ๋™์•ˆ ์ •๋ณด ์ฝ˜ํ…์ธ ๋กœ ๋งŽ์€ ๋ฐœ์ „์„ ํ–ˆ๋‹ค๋ฉด ์ด์ œ๋Š” ์˜ค๋””์˜ค๋กœ ์ „ํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฌด๊ถ๋ฌด์ง„ํ•œ ๋“œ๋ผ๋งˆ์™€ ์Šคํ† ๋ฆฌํ…”๋ง์˜ ์„ธ๊ณ„๋กœ ๋˜ ํ•œ๋ฒˆ ๋ฐœ์ „ํ•ด์•ผ ํ•œ๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋น„๋””์˜ค๋Š” ํ™”์„ฑ์— ๊ฐ„ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์„ ์ดฌ์˜ํ•ด์„œ ๋ณด์—ฌ์ค˜์•ผ ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ์˜ค๋””์˜ค ๋“œ๋ผ๋งˆ๋Š” “๋‚˜๋Š” ์ง€๊ธˆ ํ™”์„ฑ์— ๋„์ฐฉํ–ˆ๋‹ค”๋Š” ํ•œ๋งˆ๋””๋กœ ๋ฌดํ•œํ•œ ์ƒ์ƒ๋ ฅ์„ ์‘์ง‘์‹œํ‚ฌ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.ย 

์Šคํฌํ‹ฐํŒŒ์ด์˜ ๊ตญ๋‚ด ํŒŸ์บ์ŠคํŠธ ์„œ๋น„์Šค ์‹œ์ž‘์— ๋”ฐ๋ผ ๊ธฐ๋Œ€ํ•˜๋Š” ์ ์ด ์žˆ๋‚˜์š”?

์ฒญ์ทจ์ž๋“ค์ด ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œ ์žฅ๋ฅด์™€ ํ˜•์‹์˜ ์ฝ˜ํ…์ธ ๋ฅผ ์ ‘ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๊ธธ ๋ฐ”๋ผ๊ณ , ๊ทธ ๋•๋ถ„์— ํ•œ๊ตญ ํŒŸ์บ์ŠคํŠธ ์‹œ์žฅ๋„ ํ™œ์„ฑํ™” ๋์œผ๋ฉด ํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐ”๋žŒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํŠนํžˆ ์˜ค๋””์˜ค ๋“œ๋ผ๋งˆ๋‚˜ ๋‹คํ๋ฉ˜ํ„ฐ๋ฆฌ ๋“ฑ ๊ธ€๋กœ๋ฒŒ ํžˆํŠธ๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ๋กํ•œ ํŒŸ์บ์ŠคํŠธ๊ฐ€ ์ ๊ทน์ ์œผ๋กœ ์œ ์ž…๋˜์–ด ์ฒญ์ทจ์ž๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ๋‹ค์ฑ„๋กœ์šด ์žฌ๋ฏธ๋ฅผ ์ฃผ๊ณ , ์ฐฝ์ž‘ํ•˜๋Š” ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ๋Š” ๋” ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œ ์‹œ๋„๋ฅผ ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ณ„๊ธฐ๊ฐ€ ๋์œผ๋ฉด ์ข‹๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.


์ด์Šคํƒ€ ํŒ€

Spotify cover art for the Leestar Radio podcast

โ€˜์ด์Šคํƒ€ ํŒ€โ€™์œผ๋กœ ์•Œ๋ ค์ง„ ๋ฐ•์ข…์œค๊ณผ ์ด์ฃผํ—Œ์€ ๋‰ด๋ฏธ๋””์–ด ํšŒ์‚ฌ ๋žฉ์ถ”์ข…์œค์˜ ๊ณต๋™ ๋Œ€ํ‘œ๋กœ, ์ถ•๊ตฌ๋ฅผ ์ฃผ์ œ๋กœ ํ•œ ์˜์ƒ ๋ฐ ํŒŸ์บ์ŠคํŠธ๋ฅผ ์ œ์ž‘ํ•˜์—ฌ ํ•œ๊ตญ ์Šคํฌ์ธ  ํŒฌ๋“ค์˜ ๋งˆ์Œ์„ ์‚ฌ๋กœ์žก์•˜๋‹ค. ์ด์Šคํƒ€ ํŒ€์˜ ํŒŸ์บ์ŠคํŠธ โ€˜์ด์Šคํƒ€ ๋ผ๋””์˜คโ€™๋Š” ์Šคํฌํ‹ฐํŒŒ์ด์—์„œ ๋งŒ๋‚˜๋ณผ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค.

์ „๋ฌธ ํ•ด์„ค์œ„์›๊ณผ ์บ์Šคํ„ฐ๋ผ๋Š” ์ธํ„ฐ๋„ท ๋ฐฉ์†ก์—์„œ ๋ณด๊ธฐ ๋“œ๋ฌธ ์กฐํ•ฉ์œผ๋กœ ํŒŸ์บ์ŠคํŠธ์— ์ง„์ถœํ•ด ์Šคํฌ์ธ  ๋ถ„์•ผ ์ฒญ์ทจ์œจ 1์œ„๋ฅผ ๋‹ฌ์„ฑํ•˜๊ธฐ๋„ ํ–ˆ๋Š”๋ฐ, ํ•œ๊ตญ ์‹œ์žฅ ๋‚ด ์Šคํฌ์ธ  ํŒŸ์บ์ŠคํŠธ ํ˜„ํ™ฉ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์„ค๋ช…ํ•ด ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”.

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The Leestar Team

์ „์ฒด ํŒŸ์บ์ŠคํŠธ ์‹œ์žฅ์—์„œ ์Šคํฌ์ธ  ๋ถ„์•ผ๋Š” ๋น„๊ต์  ๋‚ฎ์€ ๋น„์œจ์„ ์ฐจ์ง€ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ธฐ๋ณธ์ ์œผ๋กœ ํŒŸ์บ์ŠคํŠธ๋Š” ์ •์น˜, ๊ต์–‘, ์˜ˆ๋Šฅ ๋ถ„์•ผ์˜ ๋น„์ค‘์ด ๋†’์€๋ฐ ๋ˆ„๊ฐ€ ๋“ค์–ด๋„ ์‰ฝ๊ฒŒ ๊ณต๊ฐํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ์ฃผ์ œ์ด๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์— ๋” ๋งŽ์ด ์„ ํ˜ธ๋œ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋ณด์—ฌ์ง‘๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฌผ๋ก  ์Šคํฌ์ธ  ํŒŸ์บ์ŠคํŠธ๋Š” ์Šคํฌ์ธ ์— ๊ด€์‹ฌ ์žˆ๋Š” ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์ด ์ฐพ์•„์„œ ๋“ฃ๋Š” ๊ฒฝ์šฐ๊ฐ€ ๋งŽ๊ณ , ์ด๋Š” ๊ณง ๊ณ ์ •์ ์ธ ํŒฌ์ธต์„ ํ™•๋ณดํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฐ•์ ์œผ๋กœ ์—ฐ๊ฒฐ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

ํŒŸ์บ์ŠคํŠธ๋งŒ์˜ ๋งค๋ ฅ์ด ๋ฌด์—‡์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•˜์‹œ๋‚˜์š”?

ํŒŸ์บ์ŠคํŠธ์—์„œ๋Š” ์ผ๋ฐ˜์ ์ธ ๋ผ๋””์˜ค ํ”„๋กœ๊ทธ๋žจ๋ณด๋‹ค ์ž์œ ๋กญ๊ณ  ํŽธํ•œ ๋ถ„์œ„๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ์ ‘ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋˜ํ•œ ๋ผ๋””์˜ค์™€๋Š” ๋‹ฌ๋ฆฌ ๋‚ด๊ฐ€ ์›ํ•˜๋Š” ์‹œ๊ฐ„์— ์›ํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐฉ์†ก์„ ๋“ค์„ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๊ณ , ์ค‘๊ฐ„์— ์ž ์‹œ ๋ฉˆ์ถœ ์ˆ˜๋„ ์žˆ๊ณ ์š”. ๋ˆ„๊ตฌ๋‚˜ ๋…น์Œํ•ด์„œ ๋ณธ์ธ์˜ ๋ฐฉ์†ก์„ ๋‚จ๋“ค๊ณผ ์‰ฝ๊ฒŒ ๊ณต์œ ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ ์—ญ์‹œ ํฐ ์žฅ์ ์ด๋ผ ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

The Newly Rebranded KrOWN Playlist Gives International Fans a Taste of Korean Hip-Hop

a graphical image that's a black box with KrOWN written over it in gold.

K-Pop ON! (์˜จ) is the Spotify destination for K-Pop fansโ€”but what if youโ€™re looking for the best in Korean hip-hop? Well then, weโ€™d like to introduce you to KrOWN. This editorial playlist is the ultimate place for K-hip-hop listeners around the world and serves as a brand that symbolizes the hottest of South Koreaโ€™s hip-hop scene.ย 

This new playlist gives local and international fans of the genre a one-stop destination to listen to the latest music from their favorite and soon-to-be favorite artists. The name is a combination of โ€œKR,โ€ the country code for South Korea, and โ€œCrown/Own,โ€ which refers to the crowned kings and queens who own K-hip-hop worldwide.ย 

KrOWN originally existed as the K-Hip-Hop+82 playlist. Prior to the rebranding, Spotify listeners streamed the playlist more than 20 million times just last year and racked up more than 430,000 followers.ย 

The playlistโ€™s top streaming countries include the United States, Taiwan, Canada, Indonesia, Thailand, Singapore, Australia, Malaysia, the Philippines, and Japanโ€”proving that Korean hip-hop truly is a global sensation. In fact, listeners streamed K-hip-hop tracks more than 13.1 billion times on Spotify, with Gen Zs (18- to 24-year-olds) accounting for nearly half of the listenership.

Other Spotify playlists like TrenChill K-Hip Hop, Kโ€™illinโ€™, From Bottom to Top, and Jazzy Hip-Hop give fans a taste of the many sounds within Korean hip-hop, and the newly rebranded KrOWN will be the perfect home for the overarching genre.

Check out the newly relaunched KrOWN playlist below.

์ „ ์„ธ๊ณ„ Kํž™ํ•ฉ ํŒฌ๋“ค์„ ์œ„ํ•œ ๊ธ€๋กœ๋ฒŒ ํ•œ๊ตญํž™ํ•ฉ ํ”Œ๋ ˆ์ด๋ฆฌ์ŠคํŠธ

a graphical image that's a black box with KrOWN written over it in gold.

KํŒ ํŒฌ๋“ค์„ ์œ„ํ•œ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ์ƒ์ง•์ ์ธ ๊ธ€๋กœ๋ฒŒ ์—๋””ํ† ๋ฆฌ์–ผ ํ”Œ๋ ˆ์ด๋ฆฌ์ŠคํŠธ๋กœ ์Šคํฌํ‹ฐํŒŒ์ด์˜ K-Pop ON! (์˜จ)์ด ์žˆ๋‹ค๋ฉด, Kํž™ํ•ฉ์„ ์ฐพ๋Š” ์ „ ์„ธ๊ณ„ ์ฒญ์ทจ์ž๋ฅผ ์œ„ํ•œ ๊ณต์‹ ํ•œ๊ตญํž™ํ•ฉ ํ”Œ๋ ˆ์ด๋ฆฌ์ŠคํŠธ๋Š” ๋ฐ”๋กœ KrOWN์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

KrOWN์€ ์Šคํฌํ‹ฐํŒŒ์ด ์—ญ์‚ฌ์ƒ ์ตœ์ดˆ์˜ Kํž™ํ•ฉ ์—๋””ํ† ๋ฆฌ์–ผ ํ”Œ๋ ˆ์ด๋ฆฌ์ŠคํŠธ๋กœ 2017๋…„ 4์›”์— ๋ก ์นญํ•œ โ€˜K-Hip-Hop +82โ€™์— ๊ธฐ๋ฐ˜ํ•ด ์ด๋ฒˆ์— ์ƒˆ๋กญ๊ฒŒ ํƒ„์ƒํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํŠนํžˆ ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ํ”Œ๋ ˆ์ด๋ฆฌ์ŠคํŠธ๋ช… โ€˜KrOWNโ€™์€ ํ•œ๊ตญ์˜ ๊ตญ๊ฐ€์ฝ”๋“œ ‘KR‘, ์™•๊ด€์„ ๋œปํ•˜๋Š” ์˜๋‹จ์–ด ‘Crown‘, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ‘(ํž™ํ•ฉ์”ฌ์„) ์ด๋ˆ๋‹ค’๋Š” ์˜๋ฏธ์˜ ‘Own‘์„ ํ•ฉ์ณ ‘ํ•œ๊ตญ์˜ ํž™ํ•ฉ์”ฌ์„ ์ด๋Œ์–ด ์ „ ์„ธ๊ณ„์— ์„ ๋ณด์ธ๋‹ค’๋Š” ์˜๋ฏธ๋ฅผ ์ƒ์ง•ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์Šคํฌํ‹ฐํŒŒ์ด์˜ KrOWN์€ ๊ตญ๋‚ด์™ธ ํž™ํ•ฉ ํŒฌ๊ณผ ์ปค๋ฎค๋‹ˆํ‹ฐ๊ฐ€ ์ฆ๊ฒจ ์ฐพ๋Š” ๋Œ€ํ‘œ์ ์ธ ๊ธ€๋กœ๋ฒŒ ํ•œ๊ตญํž™ํ•ฉ ํ”Œ๋ ˆ์ด๋ฆฌ์ŠคํŠธ์ด์ž ํ•˜๋‚˜์˜ ์ƒ์ง•์ ์ธ ํ•œ๊ตญํž™ํ•ฉ ๋ธŒ๋žœ๋“œ๋กœ ์ž๋ฆฌ๋งค๊น€ํ•  ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.ย 

๋ฆฌ๋ธŒ๋žœ๋”ฉ ์ „๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œ ํ•œ๊ตญํž™ํ•ฉ ์•„ํ‹ฐ์ŠคํŠธ์™€ ์Œ์•…์„ ์ „ ์„ธ๊ณ„ ์ฒญ์ทจ์ž๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ์†Œ๊ฐœํ•ด ์˜จ ๋ณธ ํ”Œ๋ ˆ์ด๋ฆฌ์ŠคํŠธ๋Š” ํ˜„์žฌ 43๋งŒ ๋ช… ์ด์ƒ์˜ ํŒ”๋กœ์›Œ๋ฅผ ๋ณด์œ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ง€๋‚œ ํ•œ ํ•ด ๋™์•ˆ์—๋งŒ ๋‹จ์ผ ํ”Œ๋ ˆ์ด๋ฆฌ์ŠคํŠธ๋กœ์„œ 2์ฒœ๋งŒ ํšŒ ์ด์ƒ์˜ ์ŠคํŠธ๋ฆฌ๋ฐ์„ ๊ธฐ๋กํ•˜๊ธฐ๋„ ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๋˜ํ•œ ์ง€๋‚œ 7์›” ํ•œ ๋‹ฌ ๋™์•ˆ ํ•ด๋‹น ํ”Œ๋ ˆ์ด๋ฆฌ์ŠคํŠธ๋ฅผ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ๋งŽ์ด ์ฒญ์ทจํ•œ ๊ตญ๊ฐ€๋Š” ๋ฏธ๊ตญ, ๋Œ€๋งŒ, ์บ๋‚˜๋‹ค, ์ธ๋„๋„ค์‹œ์•„, ํƒœ๊ตญ, ์‹ฑ๊ฐ€ํฌ๋ฅด, ํ˜ธ์ฃผ, ๋ง๋ ˆ์ด์‹œ์•„, ํ•„๋ฆฌํ•€, ์ผ๋ณธ ์ˆœ์œผ๋กœ ์ง‘๊ณ„๋˜๋ฉฐ, ํ•œ๊ตญํž™ํ•ฉ์ด ์ „ ์„ธ๊ณ„์ ์ธ ์ธ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ์–ป๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ์ž…์ฆํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์‹ค์ œ๋กœ ์˜ฌํ•ด 7์›”๊นŒ์ง€ ์Šคํฌํ‹ฐํŒŒ์ด ๋‚ด Kํž™ํ•ฉ์€ ๋ˆ„์  131์–ต ํšŒ ์ด์ƒ ์ŠคํŠธ๋ฆฌ๋ฐ ๋˜์—ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ฒญ์ทจ์ž์˜ ์•ฝ ์ ˆ๋ฐ˜(48%)์ด 18~24์„ธ์˜ Z์„ธ๋Œ€๋กœ ๋‚˜ํƒ€๋‚ฌ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

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์Šคํฌํ‹ฐํŒŒ์ด๋Š” KrOWN ์™ธ์—๋„ ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œ ํ•œ๊ตญ ์Œ์•…๊ณผ ์•„ํ‹ฐ์ŠคํŠธ ๊ด€๋ จ ํ”Œ๋ ˆ์ด๋ฆฌ์ŠคํŠธ๋ฅผ ์†Œ๊ฐœํ•˜๋Š” KํŒ ์ „์šฉ ํ—ˆ๋ธŒ๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•ด ํ•œ๊ตญํž™ํ•ฉ ์•„ํ‹ฐ์ŠคํŠธ๋“ค์„ ๊ธ€๋กœ๋ฒŒ ์ฒญ์ทจ์ž์™€ ์—ฐ๊ฒฐํ•ด์™”์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํŠนํžˆ TrenChill K-Hip Hop, Kโ€™illinโ€™, ๋ฐ”๋‹ฅ์—์„œ ์œ„๋กœ, ์žฌ์ฆˆ๋ง› ํž™ํ•ฉ ๋“ฑ ํ•œ๊ตญํž™ํ•ฉ ์ค‘์‹ฌ์˜ ๋‹ค์ฑ„๋กœ์šด ์—๋””ํ† ๋ฆฌ์–ผ ํ”Œ๋ ˆ์ด๋ฆฌ์ŠคํŠธ๋ฅผ ์ง€์†์ ์œผ๋กœ ์„ ๋ณด์—ฌ์™”์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋ฒˆ KrOWN ๋ก ์นญ์„ ๊ณ„๊ธฐ๋กœ ์Šคํฌํ‹ฐํŒŒ์ด๋Š”, ์˜ค๋Š˜์ž ๊ธฐ์ค€ ๋Œ€ํ•œ๋ฏผ๊ตญ์„ ํฌํ•จํ•œ ์ „ ์„ธ๊ณ„ 183๊ฐœ ๊ตญ๊ฐ€ 4์–ต 3์ฒœ 3๋ฐฑ๋งŒ๋ช… ์ด์ƒ์˜ ์ฒญ์ทจ์ž๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ํ•œ๊ตญํž™ํ•ฉ ํŠน์œ ์˜ ์—๋„ˆ์ง€์™€ ์‚ฌ์šด๋“œ, ๋ฌธํ™”๋ฅผ ๋”์šฑ ๊ฒฌ๊ณ ํžˆ ์•Œ๋ ค๋‚˜๊ฐˆ ๊ณ„ํš์ด๋‹ค.

์ƒˆ๋กญ๊ฒŒ ๋ก ์นญํ•œ KrOWN์„ ์ง€๊ธˆ ๋ฐ”๋กœ ํ™•์ธํ•ด ๋ณด์„ธ์š”!