Choi Introduction

I am Jae Yun Choi from South Korea. I go by my last name, Choi, because non-Koreans have a hard time pronouncing my first name correctly and going by my last name just makes my life a whole lot easier. I have been living in my hometown, Seoul, until I was 6 and moved to Shanghai, China in 1999 and lived there for almost 13 years. Now I am here in Loyola New Orleans studying jazz guitar, but my love towards jazz is significantly smaller compared to my love towards blues and rock, as I have an insane obsession toward Pink Floyd and Steely Dan.

I feel very privileged to be here in birthplace of jazz because the overall music scene in Shanghai and Korea is just substandard in terms of both quality and quantity. The music scene of New Orleans simply supersedes the music scenes of China and Korea combined not only in quantity and quality, but also diversity. In the past few month of my stay in this city, I have already been to more concerts and seen more maestros of music than I have in my entire life.

I have very little interest in things other than music, but movie is not one of them. In college, my brother studied Broadcasting & Entertainment, which essentially falls into the field of filming, and his love toward films and movies aroused the same interest in me. Watching movies is one of my favorite, if not the favorite time killing activity. Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller movies are some of my favorites but I like crazy odd, mind twisting, out of the ordinary movies such as Alice in Wonderland and Corpse Bride more than anything else. To be honest those two are two of the very few Tim Burton movies I have watched, and I didn’t even enroll in this course myself but I am still looking forward to have a great time watching some Tim Burton, and to find out more about him as a movie director but also as an artist. It is always interesting getting to know a crazy figure such as himself.