Seo Taiji and Boys facts for kids

Quick facts for kids Seo Taiji and Boys
Seo Taiji and Boys in the early 1990s. From left: Yang Hyun-suk, Seo Taiji, and Lee Juno.
Background information
Origin	Seoul, South Korea
Genres	K-pop hip-hop pop rap rock alternative rock alternative metal
Years active	1992 (1992)–1996
Labels	Bando Eumban Yedang Company
Past members	Seo Taiji Yang Hyun-suk Lee Juno

Seo Taiji and Boys (Hangul: 서태지와 아이들) was a South Korean music group active from 1992 to 1996. The three members of the boy band, Seo Taiji, Yang Hyun-suk, and Lee Juno experimented with many different genres of popular Western music. Seo Taiji and Boys was highly successful and is credited with changing the South Korean music industry by pioneering the use of rap in Korean popular music and utilizing social critique, despite pressure from ethics and censorship committees. The band won the Grand Prize at the Seoul Music Awards in both 1992 and 1993. In April 1996, Billboard reported that the band's first three albums had each sold over 1.6 million copies, with the fourth nearing two million, making all four some of the best-selling albums in South Korea.

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  Seo Taiji in 2014

See also

In Spanish: Seo Taiji and Boys para niños