Wiki has removed his entry so there isn't much info out there in English except perhaps a small ode on Soompi but Yoo Young Jin is a man of many talents. Musician, performer, composer (producer in our modern American lexicon), and lyricist extraordinaire, this lanky haired professional has served up countless Korean hits for SM Entertainment and Avex Trax. He rocketed mega groups such as H.O.T., Shinhwa and S.E.S. to number 1 and proteged some of the best Korean vocalists - Fany, Boa and DBSK/TVXQ. Over time, his production has only gotten more sophisticated, penning songs for Super Junior and Shinee, and writing material for Kangta, not to mention his own solo albums.

Pedigree aside, Yoo Young Jin, has a specific knack for creating the most bombastic of boyband club blockbusters like The SHINee World - Shinee. He often lays massively thick basslines beneath dark monotone verses, contrasts that with soaring romance, then playfully intersperses ethereal bridges and explosions in between (Don't Don - Super Junior). Unusually dynamic song structures (O-DBSK) appear as mini switchups, double bridges, and epic compositional changes that are de rigeur today in America's more progressive producers.

At his best, Young Jin adeptly transmogrifies his sources into narrative epics. Take a closer listen to more than 1o years worth of chart toppers and You Young Jin's Tracks jump out as a relatively distinguished pop with sophisticated stuff going on in a veritable sea of copyright infringement. Yes, a lot of those sounds were foraged from the American back catalog of House of Pain, rave massives, nu electro and Timberland/lake canoodling, and some of it is leaden cheese. Indelibly though, the fingerprint of Yoo Young Jin marks Korea's pop landscape. Hate it or love it, he has shaped our taste for the cream of Korea's pop culture. No one could have lived through any kind of asian scene in the 90's without fingerdancing to seminal H.O.T. I mean... who can forget the bouncy insouciance that was Candy? Meanwhile, he's rhyming "sorry sorry" with "shawty shawty" over dirty synth and hypnotic bubbles. Like, What?!