About Me
Ka Youn Yoo (b. 2000) is a South Korean composer, producer, and orchestrator specialising in music for film, television, video games, and visual media, based between Seoul and London.
A graduate of the Royal College of Music with a Master’s degree in Composition for Screen, Ka Youn also holds a First Class Bachelor’s degree in Music from King’s College London. Her screen work spans TV drama, feature films, short films, and video games, with scores recorded at studios including Abbey Road, Angel Studios, and Amaryllis Fleming Concert Hall, and presented at BFI Southbank, BFI IMAX, Sky TV, and BBC Broadcasting House. Her concert work has been presented at venues and institutions including Cadogan Hall and the Royal Opera House (UK), Government House and ABS TV & Radio (Antigua & Barbuda), the National Theatre of Korea and National Gugak Center (South Korea), and Dobříš Castle (Czech Republic).
Her work often explores cultural identity, memory, and human emotion through a cross-cultural musical language. Her projects include the K-Folklore documentary, presented through Sky TV’s ESEA Cultural Heritage Month, and Classical Traditional Korea, a production music album with West One Music exploring the sonorities of Korean traditional music through a contemporary cinematic approach. Her cross-cultural orchestral work Taepyeong was performed at Cadogan Hall, while Han, also drawing on Korean and Western musical traditions, won the 2022 LaonG Gayageum composition competition.
Alongside composing, Ka Youn works as an orchestrator, arranger, and music producer, with credits including orchestral arrangements for the Never Forgotten series, the Antigua and Barbuda Youth Orchestra, the Korean Ministry of Unification, and the BBC Piano Room.