Kim Chang-wan Band on Sync Next 26

[Performance Introduction] At the forefront of all timelines we've sung and summoned At some point, we found ourselves standing before an unfamiliar landscape. K-pop where the world embraces it first and Korea follows to confirm, K-pop that has expanded into animation, games, and virtual worlds, growing into a massive universe. Alongside this flow, the emotional undercurrent and narrative that Korean popular music has built has walked the same timeline with us. Kim Chang-wan is a rare artist who has carried this continuity within himself. The experimentalism of Sanullim and the lyricism of folk, the innocence of children's songs and the everyday language of drama — he is part of a generation that remembers the emotional archetypes before K-pop, and an artist who can observe today's industrialized music with curiosity rather than judgment. We layer K-pop as an industrial system and Korean popular music as an emotional record—two axes that have run the same timeline—on a single stage called Kim Chang-wan Band, and replay K-pop in our own unique language.