Myoung’s Bio

Myoung started his musical journey at just four years of age, singing on competition stages in and around Seoul. As a dutiful child of Korean parents, he then undertook study of the pianoforte, a pursuit that would span two continents and lead to tutelage under Sister Mary of The Sister’s Of Mercy, North Sydney. Having performed a program that included Debussy’s “Clair de Lune” and Led Zeppelin’s “Tangerine” for his HSC music exams, Myoung promptly closed the lid on the family-heirloom piano and implored his favourite aunt to send him a “pink-hair rocker’s guitar” for his 18th birthday.

Returning to Korea in 1997, Myoung formed Dabangband, a group made up of ex-pats and locals who performed across the country, culminating in a billing at 2002’s Ssamzie Sound Festival. Dabangband released two albums, Pig Over Seoul and Product, and an EP titled Last One.

As well as fronting his own band the Novellas, Myoung’s creative work includes a one-man play called Hant’a the Book Crusher, based on the novel Too Loud a Solitude by Czech author Bohumil Hrabal, performed in the Windsong Pavilion at Four Winds. He is also the creator and current Creative Director of Headland Writers’ Festival in Tathra, NSW.

The family piano now sits grinning with all its teeth bared in his shed studio, where he is currently mixing and mastering The Novellas’ next EP, Songs from Fiction Pt 2. Meanwhile, when time allows, Myoung contributes lyrical bass and ballistic backing vocals to Wrack & Ruin.