Kwangchul Youn

Kwangchul Youn is a Korean baritone with a singing career based in Berlin. His hometown of Ch'ung-Ju is pretty much in the center of South Korea. He went to nearby Ch'ong-Ju, a larger city, to study singing at the Ch'ong-Ju University. While he was still a student, he won First Prize in the Korean National Singing Competition. He made his operatic debut at the Korean State Opera as de Seriex in Umberto Giordano's Fedora in 1988. After a period of singing as a guest artist in several Korean opera houses (in such operas as Rossini's Barber of Seville, Verdi's I due Foscari, and ...