Park Moon-young


Park Moon-young is a South Korean lyricist, composer, singer, guitarist, producer, music critic and writer. During his career as a lyricist and composer, he used the stage name Park In-ho and the pen name Moon Young during his career as a writer.

Life

Park Moon-young was born in 1952 in Busan, South Korea. Park's father is a carpenter from Wonju, and his mother is from Pyeongchang County. Park Moon-young's parents gave birth to Park Moon-young in 1952 when the Korean War was under way in Busan, a refuge.
Park Moon-young moved to Seoul with her family as a child and learned to play the violin since she was in elementary school. He graduated from Daegwang Middle School, Daegwang High School and Seoul National University of Technology, and worked with Kim Eun-kwang as a member of the male duo-member guitar music group "Nondureong Batdureong" from 1973 to 1978.
Park Moon-young was in charge of plant design at Daewoo Engineering for a while after serving in the military. In 1977, he joined the company as an FM radio producer for Tongyang Broadcasting Corporation. He moved to the Korea Broadcasting System following the Policy for Merger and Abolition of the Press in November 1980 and directed the radio programs To You For Forgetting the Night, Hello, Hwang In-yong, Kang Bu-ja, Rock-paper-scissors, and KBS University Song Festival. He also worked as a writer for KBS 2TV's comedy show Humour No. 1.
Park Moon-young worked as a lyricist, composer, and music critic since writing and composing the song Dokdo is Our Land released by singer Jeong Gwang-tae in 1982, and published songs mainly based on Korean history and culture. In July 1990, he resigned as a music producer for KBS FM Radio. In 1991, he wrote and composed the song 100 Great People Who Made Korea Shine released by comedian Choi Young-joon, which won the Patriotic Lyrics Award at the 5th Korean Song Awards hosted by the Korean Lyric Research Association in 1991.
Park Moon-young established a children's history singing group and distributed songs written and composed based on Korean history and culture. In addition, he focused on explaining Korean history to children by operating a children's history camp, a history song class for children, and a pilgrimage to the country's history. While working as a music producer, he also discovered new singers such as Kim Kwang-seok, Gil Eun-jung, Byun Jin-sub and Siinkwa Chonjang. In November 1992, he produced A Record Celebrating Hwang Young-cho's Victory in Marathon - Mother I Did It to commemorate Hwang Young-cho's gold medal in the men's marathon at the 1992 Summer Olympics held in Barcelona, Spain.
Park Moon-young worked as a Seoul Broadcasting System radio producer from 1992 to 1998. From 1994 to 1995, he served as a judge for the KBS program National Singing Contest and when announcer Kim Sun-dong got off and Song Hae came back in, he handed over his seat to Jeong Poong-song, Shin Dae-sung, and Lee Ho-seop. Park Moon-young lived with her family in Dallas from 2000 to 2006. In 2010, he worked as a professor of entertainment business at the Korea Conservatory and in 2017, he produced a children's song album Pyeongchang Song, wishing for the success of the 2018 Winter Olympics held in Pyeongchang, South Korea.

Works

Songs

  • Dokdo is our land
  • The Secret of the Sandpiper
  • Tiger and susukkang
  • Foolish Ondal and Princess Pyeonggang
  • You're like a flower
  • The Earth Will Not Perish
  • Hwarang Gwanchang
  • Einstein
  • Kwak Jae-woo, the leader of the righteous army
  • General Gyebaek
  • Gwanggaeto the Great
  • Our beautiful country
  • Shaking Reeds
  • Where are you
  • Heartless me
  • You and Me
  • Eyes of Farewell
  • Flowers on the edge of the road
  • Kimchi Theme song
  • Jjarappappa
  • Crocodile Hunting
  • Cheer up, Power
  • Mask dance song
  • Big rocks, small rocks
  • Glisteningly
  • Secretly shed tears
  • It's Not Too Late
  • The Season of Loneliness
  • 100 Great People Who Shined Korea
  • Mind is one
  • Korean warrior
  • We Are the Korean People
  • Run Boy Go Jumong
  • Teacher Baekgyeol's rice cake mill
  • 33 People in Anti-Japanese Struggle
  • My Dream
  • Mother, I did it
  • Cheer up, Korea!
  • Friendship Made on Young Days
  • Cheer up, Power Connection Song
  • To the World of Dreams
  • For the emperor
  • Because of Money
  • The one who taught me love
  • If you want
  • Mother
  • Missing number
  • The Port of the Earth, Dokdo and Seoul
  • 100 Sportsmen Who Shined Korea
  • Ah! Goguryeo
  • Don't Fight, Korea
  • Swallowtail butterfly flew to Dokdo
  • ''New Dokdo is our territory''

    Books

  • Poetry collection I Want to Marry You - Published under the pen name "Moon Young".
  • Original novel Letters from Saint-Exupery from Jeongji Village - a fable-style novel with the character of a sequel to Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's novel The Little Prince.
  • Comic History Travel for Children - 100 Great People Who Shined Korea - consists of a total of five volumes. Park Moon-young is in charge of writing and Lee Nam-woo is in charge of painting.
  • Comic History Travel for Children - 100 Great People Who Shined the World - consisting of a total of three volumes. Park Moon-young is in charge of writing and Lee Nam-woo is in charge of painting.
  • Original novel Beautiful Journey - a novel based on the theme of one's own enlightenment in the desert, inspired by the disappearance of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.
  • Novel The Emperor - Rebirth of the Empire - consists of a total of three volumes. Published under the pen name "Moon Young". Hosted by the Korea Creative Content Agency, the first winner of the novel category at the first Korea Culture Content Contest.
  • Essay collection You can stand up when you fall over and walk when you stand up - a collection of essays that tell you the wisdom of life's reversal, the process of self-reflecting and enlightening yourself.
  • Essay collection The Things Anyone Dream But Can't Achieve - a collection of essays combining reminiscences and fables about one's life.
  • Picture book Dokdo is our territory - a picture book written to convey information about Dokdo to children.
  • Essay collection Don't Worry, Mommy - A collection of essays about discovering a happy life through "Mommy".