Good news from the producer who left JYP after having a big fight with Park Jin Young over socks
The successful career of HYBE’s Chairman Bang Si Hyuk, who is called the father of BTS.
Born in 1972, Bang Si Hyuk grew up in an elite family as his father was the president of a public corporation established by Korea University and his mother graduated from the Department of English Language and Literature at Seoul National University.
Bang Si Hyuk majored in Aesthetics at Seoul National University and received a bronze medal at the Yoo Jae Ha Music Contest in 1994. He then stepped into the music industry, which is unrelated to his major.
He was scouted by Park Jin Young in 1997 for his production skills then became a senior producer at JYP Entertainment. Bang Ji Hyuk became close friends with Park Jin Young in 1997 while working as a producer for JYP Entertainment and working on songs together in the US. Bang Si Hyuk also thanked Park Jin Young for everything about producing he learned from him in an acceptance speech.
While working in the mainstream music industry, Bang Si Hyuk composed many songs that were slightly different from the trend. Making various hit songs, such as god’s “Need You”, Baek Ji Young’s “Like Being Shot By a Bullet”, “My Ear’s Candy”, Teen Top’s “No more perfume on you”, Davichi’s “Let the time stop”, 2AM “Never let you go”, etc., he gradually built his reputation in the K-pop world.
After gaining experiences thanks to Park Jin Young, Bang Si Hyuk later founded Big Hit Entertainment (currently HYBE) in 2005. In fact, there was a big accident that caused Bang Si Hyuk to leave JYP.
Park Jin Young was the CEO and Bang Si Hyuk was an employee, but they were close. In 2003, when they lived together in the US, a big incident happened that tore them apart.
K-pop is now receiving worldwide recognition and love, but it wasn’t easy at the time. Bang Si Hyuk and Park Jin Young came to promote K-pop with their own money, but the money ran out and they were feeling frustrated because they couldn’t sell a single song until a year later.
Both of them were seriously sensitive because of this. Bang Si Hyuk was in charge of laundry at their dorm, and he got mad at Park Jin Young for this behavior. What could have happened?
It was because of Park Jin Young’s habit of turning socks inside out. Bang Si Hyuk warned him about this several times, but Park Jin Young didn’t change and repeated this mistake on a day when Bang Si Hyuk was burnt out, so he exploded with anger.
That day, the two fought for over three hours. After that, Bang Si Hyuk left the house. He went back to Korea saying he couldn’t do it anymore. Park Jin Young clenched his teeth and sold all the remaining songs.
In the end, as misunderstandings piled up, Bang Si Hyuk left JYP. However, the two later reportedly resolved their conflict and maintained their friendship for more than 20 years. Bang Si Hyuk even attended Park Jin Young’s concert. It is unlikely that they see each other as enemies, even though their companies are each other’s biggest competitors.
With Big Hit Entertainment, Bang Si Hyuk launched BTS’s debut and worked on the group’s songs, such as “I NEED U”, “RUN”, “Fire”, “Spring Day”, “DNA”, “FAKE LOVE”, “IDOL”, “Boy With Luv”, etc. As BTS grew into a global boy group and his songs also became worldwide hits.
During an interview in 2011, Bang Si Hyuk revealed his dream, saying “I plan to go all-in for K-pop. My dream is to create a company that can surpass SM, YG and JYP”.
Bang Si Hyuk, who is owning trillions of won worth of assets, is still continuing his great steps towards his dream.
On February 10th, HYBE led by Bang Si Hyuk became the largest shareholder of SM by acquiring SM shares from SM’s founder and former executive producer Lee Soo Man. Kakao joined hands with SM’s current management system to exclude Lee Soo Man then Lee Soo Man quickly turned to work with HYBE. Attention is focused on the result after HYBE secures more SM shares.
Source: Daum.
