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 his film credits are originally listed in Korean (최승현), they often appear in various English forms such as Choi Seung-hyun due to auto-generated Romanization. Internationally, he uses the name Shawn Choi, with both names referring to the same composer. 

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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.”