Dalpalan

Dalpalan
Birth nameKang Ki-young
Also known asDalparan
Kang Ki-yeong
Born (1966-07-16) July 16, 1966
Seoul, South Korea
Genres
Occupations
Instruments
Years active1986–present
Member ofPitch Present
Formerly of
  • Little Sky
  • Sinawe
  • H2O
  • Pipi Band Band
  • Pipi Long Stocking
  • Mozosonyon
Korean name
Hangul
달파란
Hanja
Revised RomanizationDalparan
McCune–ReischauerTalp'aran
Birth name
Hangul
강기영
Hanja
Revised RomanizationGang Gi-yeong
McCune–ReischauerKang Kiyŏng

Dalpalan (born Kang Ki-young on July 16, 1966) is a South Korean film score composer and music director. He was a first-generation Korean heavy metal and electronic musician and a former member of the bands Sinawe, 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). 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).