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Shin Joong-hyun: South Korea's psychedelic mimic turned master

Stevie Chick, The Guardian, 15 September 2011

He learned American pop via a hand-built radio, became a psychedelic pop star in his own right, then was tortured by South Korea's dictatorship. Meet the remarkable Shin Joong-hyun.

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