Writer Min-Jae Park
Introduction
I am studying master’s course in Korea University with the major of comparative literature after graduating from Korea National University of Arts with the major of theater production. Also I’ve been working for the theater [Hello Factory] as CEO, writer, director, and for the classic group [KAMERATA STRINGS] as a planning producer.
Momentum of Conception
I have built various career on the situation of fire, rescue, emergency, control tower by working together with firemen due to the fact that I served my military service as a 911 fire-fighter. I think the story of fireman would be one of my old missions. If my previous works talked about the life and difficulty of fireman, now I hope to write a work about the family of fireman with his daughter who’s been an aspirant for being a rapper. I got interested in RAP recently. I’m sure the combination of fireman and rapper would make an interesting story.
How do you hope this work would be to the audiences ultimately?
I hope this would be remembered as a story of [pitiful daddy and daughter] at some scenes even if it’s heart-warming. Furthermore, I really hope this work could find us our ‘lost family love’ in this period.
Composer Han-Sik Kong
Introduction
Hello, I’m Han-Sik Kong, the composer of ‘Dear Papa, My Fireman’. I’ve changed into another major which is music graduate school different from previous (Biology) just because I loved performances and acts. Watching the audiences crying and laughing in the music of the musical performance, and sometimes watching their thoughts and values are changing make me so happy. So I feel that I have a strong sense of responsibility because this is what I really like.
What is your first impression right after you read the scenario of this work?
I came to have a challenge spirit with thinking that I really want to do that very well when I heard about this idea of rap musical which made me thinking fresh, concern, excited, etc. Also there come up a fireman daddy who is too busy and good-hearted but stupid as well as his high-school daughter who is an aspirant for being a rapper, so I felt very interested in the fact that rap is a medium to connect these two specific combination. Therefore I have been considering as a composer how the genre RAP would be able to melt into this musical.
Please introduce the overall music concept in this work.
RAP is not a suitable genre to be used for the musical. So the most remarkable concept on this work will be the combination between ‘musical’ and ‘rap’. Furthermore, it will be much interesting to watch how this kind of popular genre, ‘rap’ could be melt into the musical.