Reviews
Jung Kyung’s Switch On. Author: Jung Kyung. Smart Brothers Co., Ltd., April 30, 2024. Self-help, success, and success studies. I learned about baritone Jung Kyung through Classic United. He is both a classical singer and a scholar who continues to research arts management. This book tells the story of his life in music. Perhaps because of my mother’s prenatal influence, I enjoy classical music and always play it while reading or working. A few years ago, during several hospital treatments, I
When I first heard his voice on EBS radio, his deep baritone immediately struck me as captivating. I assumed he was simply an opera singer, but he is also an arts manager, professor, performance planner and singer, and broadcaster. He entered the mainstream from the classical world’s margins. Since Korea’s music and art scenes are said to be quite conservative and factional, I can see that achieving what he has must have taken extraordinary strength and determination. Many people still find
This book brings Jung Kyung’s honest life story together in a clear beginning, middle, and end, revealing his serious reflections. As I read, I realized it captures “the demanding way of life of an artist.” I will treasure it for the rest of my life.
canon: Switch on the scene
Author Jung Kyung says he has not yet succeeded. Through the story of Jung Kyung, who is a world-class musician, professor at his alma mater, executive at an American company, and broadcaster, readers can understand how an outsider becomes part of the mainstream and apply that process to their own lives. This is not a book that treats “success” with clichés. Instead, readers can make their own the “way through life’s puzzle” of Jung Kyung, who began outside the mainstream yet built a successful life. His story of deliberately choosing difficult paths others avoided and surviving there can be an example to others in today’s conformist society, and it conveys hard-won experience. How did Jung Kyung build five careers, each successfully? How did someone who failed to get into high school and could not afford proper lessons become a celebrated baritone who sang the national anthem at state events? Jung Kyung is a boundary-crosser on the frontier. How did he become a charismatic artist, innovative concert planner, academic educator, down-to-earth broadcaster, and top marketing executive? His candid story will offer a firm life message to both arts students and readers with no connection to the arts. Perhaps because the experiences in this book are not extraordinary events, but everyday things that happen around us.
Korean title: 정경의 스위치 온
Korean author: 정경
Korean publisher: 똑똑한형제들
ISBN-13: 9791197952159
Reviews
Jung Kyung’s Switch On. Author: Jung Kyung. Smart Brothers Co., Ltd., April 30, 2024. Self-help, success, and success studies. I learned about baritone Jung Kyung through Classic United. He is both a classical singer and a scholar who continues to research arts management. This book tells the story of his life in music. Perhaps because of my mother’s prenatal influence, I enjoy classical music and always play it while reading or working. A few years ago, during several hospital treatments, I
When I first heard his voice on EBS radio, his deep baritone immediately struck me as captivating. I assumed he was simply an opera singer, but he is also an arts manager, professor, performance planner and singer, and broadcaster. He entered the mainstream from the classical world’s margins. Since Korea’s music and art scenes are said to be quite conservative and factional, I can see that achieving what he has must have taken extraordinary strength and determination. Many people still find
This book brings Jung Kyung’s honest life story together in a clear beginning, middle, and end, revealing his serious reflections. As I read, I realized it captures “the demanding way of life of an artist.” I will treasure it for the rest of my life.
