Shawn Choi, born 최승현 Choi Seung Hyun, is a composer whose work spans film and other musical forms. He has contributed as a music director and composer to dozens of feature films across diverse genres.

 

He was one of the composers on Oldboy, and composed the original score for Sympathy for Lady Vengeance.​​ His credits also include the romantic action-comedy My Girlfriend Is an Agent, as well as thrillers such as Wide Awake, Children, Black House, and The Guard Post.

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Choi began his career as a guitarist, initially developing his voice through independent study and expanding into formal classical training while active as a composer. He completed his Master’s degree in Film Scoring at New York University, refining his compositional voice. He has taught at several universities and continues to focus on composition. He is the founder of PSALM Music, a film scoring production company, and also creates faith-based music.

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While most of his film credits are originally listed in Korean only (최승현), they have appeared in various English forms across different media—such as Seunghyun Choi, Seung-Hyun Choi, Choi Seung Hyun, Choi Seung-hyeon, and Choi Seung-hyun, among others; even within the English credits of the same director, variations such as Seunghyun Choi and Choi Seung Hyun have both appeared.

Due to this wide range of romanization variations across different media, and to prevent confusion with individuals of the same name, he uses Shawn Choi for all international projects and releases.

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The name 'Shawn' resembles the sound of his Korean given name and was given to him by Professor Ron Sadoff at New York University. It means “God is gracious.”