Dalpalan | |
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| Birth name | Kang Ki-young |
| Also known as | Dalparan Kang Ki-yeong |
| Born | July 16, 1966 Seoul, South Korea |
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| Years active | 1986–present |
| Member of | Pitch Present |
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| Korean name | |
| Hangul | 달파란 |
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| Revised Romanization | Dalparan |
| McCune–Reischauer | Talp'aran |
| Birth name | |
| Hangul | 강기영 |
| Hanja | |
| Revised Romanization | Gang Gi-yeong |
| McCune–Reischauer | Kang Kiyŏng |
Dalpalan (born Kang Ki-young on July 16, 1966) is a South Korean film score composer and music director.[2] He was a first-generation Korean heavy metal and electronic musician and a former member of the bands Sinawi, H2O and Pipi Band.
He began making film music in 1997 with the film "Bad Movie" and made his full-fledged debut two years later with the film "Lies" (1999). In 2002, Dalparan, Jang Young-gyu, Bang Jun-seok, and Lee Byeong-hoon established the film music group "Pitch Present." Dalparan frequently collaborates with musician Jang Young-gyu, a fellow member of Pitch Present, on several film scores, including A Bittersweet Life (2005), The Good, the Bad, the Weird (2008), The Front Line (2011), The Thieves (2012), Assassination (2015), and The Wailing (2016).[3][4] As music director he is also known for his work in the film Vanishing Time: A Boy Who Returned (2017), Believer (2018), Samjin Company English Class (2019), and Phantom (2023).