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10 Facts About Kim Dong-ryul

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Kim Dong-ryul is a South Korean singer-songwriter.

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Kim Dong-ryul composes, arranges, writes lyrics, produces, and performs his own music.

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Kim Dong-ryul's songs were still slightly naive and mostly standard classical ballads, while Lee Juck's songs were poignant and heretical.

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Kim Dong-ryul entered Berklee College of Music in 1999 and majored in film scoring.

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Kim Dong-ryul continued to integrate Korean traditional music and classical sound.

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Kim Dong-ryul had tried to incorporate some new music styles in Exposing, such as bossa nova, samba, and pop-opera.

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Kim Dong-ryul held his second solo concert in Seoul and Busan in August 2004 and released the live recording album Invitation in 2005.

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Kim Dong-ryul put his music and experience of the past ten years into this recording album.

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The concerts were designed to be full-scale in every way and Kim Dong-ryul rearranged his songs to be accompanied by an orchestra.

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In January 2018, Kim Dong-ryul released an EP, Reply, after a three-year hiatus which sold 14,374 copies in the first month of sales.