Name: Kim Dongsan & Blueeewoot - To You in a Distant Place Whose Name I Don't Know (Seoul Showcase)
Uploaded: 2024-11-02
Description: Kim Dongsan & Blueeewoot are Suwon-based folk/blues musician Kim Dongsan and his band. Nicknamed "Korea's Woody Guthrie," Kim Dongsan is noted for music with social messages. He sings about laid-off workers and victims of gentrification and runs the LP and recycling shop "Long Player" near Janganmun in Suwon, developing it into a local cultural space.

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Kim Dongsan & Blueeewoot are Suwon-based folk/blues musician Kim Dongsan and his band. Nicknamed "Korea's Woody Guthrie," Kim Dongsan is noted for music with social messages. He sings about laid-off workers and victims of gentrification and runs the LP and recycling shop "Long Player" near Janganmun in Suwon, developing it into a local cultural space.

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