Lee Byung-woo

{{Short description|South Korean guitarist and composer (born 1965)}}

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{{Infobox person

| name = Lee Byeong-woo

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1965|1|22}}

| birth_place = Seoul, South Korea

| occupation = guitarist, composer

| years_active = 1986–present

| module = {{Infobox Korean name|child=yes|headercolor=transparent

| hangul = 이병우

| hanja = {{linktext|李|丙|雨}}

|rr=I Byeong-u

|mr=I Pyŏng-u

}}

}}

Lee Byeong-woo ({{ko-hhrm|이병우}}; born January 22, 1965) is a South Korean guitarist and composer of film scores. He has composed music for more than twenty films, including the segment "Memories" in Three (2002), A Tale of Two Sisters (2003), All for Love (2005), The Host (2006) and Mother (2009).

Lee's music for A Tale of Two Sisters was described by OhmyNews as "one of the best film scores ever composed for a Korean film".Kyu Hyun Kim, [http://english.ohmynews.com/articleview/article_view.asp?menu=c10400&no=310038&rel_no=1 "'A Tale of Two Sisters'"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110605035646/http://english.ohmynews.com/articleview/article_view.asp?menu=c10400&no=310038&rel_no=1 |date=2011-06-05 }}, OhmyNews, 8 August 2006. Retrieved on 26 October 2008. He won Best Music at the 2004 Shanghai International Film Festival for Untold Scandal,[http://www.siff.com/Archive/en/history_hj.htm Shanghai International Film Festival] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071106032505/http://www.siff.com/Archive/en/history_hj.htm |date=2007-11-06 }}. Retrieved on 26 October 2008. and in 2006 his score for The King and the Clown won the same accolade at the Blue Dragon Film Awards.Darcy Paquet, [http://www.varietyasiaonline.com/content/view/507/53/ ""Host" monster slays Blue Dragon ceremony"]{{dead link|date=December 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}, Variety, 16 December 2006. Retrieved on 26 October 2008. In 2007, Lee received a further Best Music nomination at the 44th Grand Bell Awards for For Horowitz.[http://twitchfilm.net/archives/010346.html "[Korean Film News] 44th Grand Bell Awards [대종상영화제] : Family Ties Wins Best Film"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080324182315/http://twitchfilm.net/archives/010346.html |date=2008-03-24 }}, Twitch, 9 June 2007. Retrieved on 26 October 2008.