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Thirty years ago this month, a Korean singer-songwriter by the name of Yoo Jae-ha died at the age of Had the car accident that killed him happened a few months earlier, before he released his first and only album Because I Love You, Korean pop music, now better known as “K-pop,” might have taken a different sonic direction entirely.

Though he died believing it had failed, his record has not just risen to the status of a beloved pop masterpiece but emanates an influence still clearly heard in hit songs in South Korea today. The posthumously granted title “Father of Korean Ballads,” as well as a music scholarship and yearly song contest, honor his memory, but on some level they also acknowledge that Korean pop music may never see — or more importantly, hear — an innovator like him again.

Born in , a year that places him in the middle of the country’s culturally and politically influential “ Generation” (comparable to the mighty Baby Boomers in America), Yoo grew up as the fifth of