Korean Vinyl Pressings

Almost certainly the first ever made outside of korea.

Korean vinyl pressings.

The significant thing about the first pressing of this record is that it is probably the very first vinyl record not shellac 78 disc containing korean music ever made. Earliest australian pressing of a vinyl record by korean artists that i have found to definitely exist. Some interesting asian music vinyl records. These are three records i am still trying to find.

One of the all time great. These are south korean pressings of vinyl records that are stored at my dad s place in australia along side the japanese pressings. The korean music on vinyl page gets the most traffic by far. Have only included the more interesting items here.

Official releases of western artists were not pressed in large numbers and are of the same quality as european or japanese pressings. Interesting 80s to 2015 vinyl including some australian punk lp releases. Note all official korean vinyl records are now rare and very hard to find. There is an earlier one but i am yet to see a copy myself or even a picture of of a copy kim sisters 7 inch monument pke 1661 1966.

Some sub pages of the web pages above are linked below. As an australian i m particularly interested in any korean music released in australia. Damned smash it up australia 45 punk 1979 damned smash it up 7 inch vinyl single australia chiswick chis 165 1979 extremely clean copy of quite rare single. North korean pressings of vinyl records 북한에서 제작된 레코드 like everything else in north korea it is hard to find precise information what vinyl records and possibly 78s standard play records were issued there.

As many people already know a significant number of korean pressings records have unique track listings and or different covers. Rare 50s rock and roll vinyl 45s. Interesting 70s vinyl 45s. Click on picture for link.

Although this site web site is predominately devoted to non korean vinyl releases of korean music i have decided to occasionally include some odd korean pressing items from my collection that are of special interest or have especially cool covers and in this case an cd related to rare korean sp 78 rpm records. Happy dolls show album no 1 vinyl lp canada solar sar 2012 1977 the prices have gone up really high for this album so i might wait until i am lucky to pick up one for a. These are some of the non japanese korean pressings i have stored along with the japan korea discs. Meanwhile three non korean vinyl pressings of korean music i haven t been able to find a copy of are pictured below.