Yoo Gun-hyung (

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: 유건형; born February 14, 1979) is a South Korean recording artist and record producer, best known for his work with

PSY Park Jae-sang (, ; born December 31, 1977), known professionally as Psy (stylized in all caps as PSY) (; ; ), is a South Korean singer, rapper, songwriter, and record producer. Psy is known domestically for his humorous videos and stage per ...

, and, in particular, their international hit

Gangnam Style "Gangnam Style" ( ko, 강남스타일, ) is a K-pop song by South Korean rapper Psy, released on July 15, 2012, by YG Entertainment as the lead single of his sixth studio album, ''Psy 6 (Six Rules), Part 1'' (''Ssai Yukgap Part 1''). The term ...

Biography

Yoo Gun-Hyung was introduced to the world of

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in 1996 as one-half (along with Suh Jung-Hwan) of the

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duo ''Untitle.'' Yoo and Suh were both still in

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, and gained particular recognition in the Korean music industry because they were already writing their own songs. Their second album, entitled ''The Blue Color'' was released in 1997. Untitle disbanded in 1999. Yoo's collaboration with

goes back at least to 2006, with Yoo writing music and PSY writing lyrics for songs on the 2006 album ''PSY – We Are The One''. They have also co-written songs for

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, Kim Jin Pyo, and

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. It has also been reported that Yoo and former Untitle co-member Suh have been working with Jang Woo Hyuk (formerly of H.O.T.) on a solo project. "

", the lead single of '' PSY 6 (Six Rules), Part 1'', which Yoo co-wrote with PSY, was released on July 15, 2012, and the music video was uploaded to YouTube the same day. Within weeks, the video had made it to No. 3 on YouTube's music video list. Then in August, the video went viral outside of the

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-speaking world, and by September had become the most " liked" video in the history of YouTube."'Gangnam Style' holds Guinness world record for most 'liked' video in YouTube history", guinnessworldrecords.com, Sept. 20, 2012
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Yoo, Gun Hyung Living people South Korean musicians South Korean record producers South Korean songwriters 1979 births