Yoo Jae-ha Music Contest

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Yoo Jae-ha Music Contest
GenreMusic Competition
FrequencyAnnually
Location(s) South Korea
Years active34
Inaugurated1989
Website yjh.or.kr/about

Yoo Jae-ha Music Contest is South Korea's oldest singer-songwriter music competition, which began in 1989. [1] [2]

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History

After Yoo Jae-ha died on 1 November 1987, his family established the Yoo Jae-ha Music Scholarship Association in 1988, with proceeds from the sale of his first studio album Because I Love You. [3] The following year, in 1989, the first contest was held by the Yoo Jae-ha Music Scholarship Association, and Cho Kyu-chan became the grand prize winner of the first competition. [4] The competition is being held at Hanyang University's Baeknam Music Hall, Yoo Jae-ha's alma mater, [5] and it has been held every year since 1989 until present, except in 2005, when the competition was cancelled due to financial problems. [6]

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<i>Because I Love You</i> (album) 1987 studio album by Yoo Jae-ha

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The following is a list of notable events and releases that happened in 1987 in music in South Korea.

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