Korea Girl was an American

United States

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 indie rock

Indie rock

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 band from San Jose

San Jose, California

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, California

California

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. The band's members included Elizabeth Yi on vocals and guitar, Tobin Mori on guitar, vocals, and keyboard, Summer on electric bass guitar and Marc Duarte on drums. Che Chou later joined the band temporarily, but does not appear on any of the group's recordings. Scott Landucci later replaced Duarte on drums. Mori and Chou currently play in Ee

Ee (band)

Ee is a San Francisco-based indie rock band that formed in 1999 by former Korea Girl member Tobin Mori. Current members are Tobin Mori on guitar and vocals, Che Chou on bass guitar, Peter Nguyen on drums, and longtime Seam member Sooyoung Park on lead guitar and keyboard...

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The group was formed in January 1996 and broke up in 1999 due to conflicts between the two singers. They released one CD (Korea Girl in 1997; rereleased in 1999 with additional bonus tracks) and one 7" (Reunion in 1998) on Asian Man Records

Asian Man Records

Asian Man Records is a small, DIY record label run by Mike Park in Monte Sereno, California. Park started a record label and began releasing music in 1989 under the name Dill Records, with the Asian Man label established May 1996.-Artists:...

, and also appear on various Asian Man compilation CDs as well as a video/DVD. The group's name was presumably inspired by the fact that Yi is of Korean descent

Korean American

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. The cover of their self-titled album depicts, in cartoon fashion, a schoolgirl carrying two revolver

Revolver

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Korea Girl's music was generally melodic and understated, featuring both male and female vocals and using clean and undistorted guitars in the manner of such earlier indie rock groups as Blake Babies

Blake Babies

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Although cited as a San Jose band, the booklet to its Korea Girl CD lists Saratoga, California

Saratoga, California

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 (a bedroom community near San Jose) as the band's mailing address.

External links

• Korea Girl article
• http://www.eetheband.com/press/interviews/0211sfweekly.html
• http://www.eetheband.com/familytree/koreagirl/01.html