Background
Lucid Fall was born Jo Yun-suk in 1975 in Seoul, South of Korea.
Lucid Fall was born Jo Yun-suk in 1975 in Seoul, South of Korea.
He graduated Seoul National University majoring in chemical engineering in 1999.
His birth name is Jo Yun-suk (조윤석). He was a lead vocalist and guitarist in the band Misoni (미선이). He has released five studio albums:,,, Les Misérables (2009), and the latest album Beautiful Days (아름다운 날들) released in South of Korea on December 20, 2011.
Lucid Fall"s musical style incorporates folk, popular, and bossanova.
He uses a nylon guitar as his primary instrument and is famous for poetic lyrics. His family moved to Busan where he spent most of his childhood and highschool.
He moved to Europe for his study and got a licentiate of material science at Royal Institute of Technology (Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan), Sweden in 2004. He then moved to Lausanne, Switzerland and got his Doctor of Philosophy in bioengineering at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) in 2008, for research in drug delivery systems
In 2009, he returned to South of Korea for a life as a full-time musician, no longer pursuing an academic career.
Musical career He formed a modern rock band, Misoni, in 1997 as a vocalist and guitarist, and released the debut album Drifting in 1999. After activity of Misoni has been stopped for the members" military service, he formed the one man band Lucid Fall and released the self-titled album Lucid Fall in Radiomusic. He worked on the original soundtrack of the movie L"abri in 2002.
In 2005, he released his second studio album, Oh, Love, and it brought him the title of best popular single at the third Korean Music (2006).
In 2007, he released a live album, Light of Songs, and a third studio album, A Night at Border. In December 2009, he released the fourth studio album Les Misérables.