Act 5 [Seo Tai Ji 5] Review

Produced By : Seotaiji
Record Label : Seotaiji Company
Release Date : 1998.7.7
"The presumptions about Seo Taiji's 'comeback album' were based on the pattern of genres of each album during the Taiji Boys period. They predicted that it would introduce techno but they were more than wrong.. He came back with the guitar, bass, and drums; the most classic composition of rock."
- Hun Kang, music critic
"Kino," August 1998

"Through this solo album Seo Taiji even shows the brilliance and novelty of sampling music from genres such as industrial, techno, and hardcore music in the style of rock.
Despite the fact that the album has a short running time of roughly 28 minutes, he has put in a tremendous amount of music into this album; leaving me wondering if he has a compulsive editing disorder. Fortunately, all of it possesses a remarkable degree of completion."
- Jin Sung Kim
"Dong A Daily" July 20, 1998

"Seo Taiji, the boy who loved rock, became the founder of Korean pop music and returned to rock after achieving great success. Korea became pop music heaven, and he was in a position where he could express his own music."
- "Pop Asia," a Japanese Music Magazine (September 24, 1998)

"The musical letter of an exile. Indeed, a letter of secrecy...Once again Seo Taiji marvelously succeeds in both; grasping an orthodox genre and creating a style of music solely his own."
- the judges of the 1998 Muse Music Awards, album of the year
(presented by Muse, a naunuri online music community)

"Seo Taiji does not only unify various musical ideas into one piece but intimately weaves all the exact notes into exact positions. Each note's position is so definite that if even one was missed the whole song would come apart and collapse."
- "Monologue" (webzine)

“Almost all the tendencies of '90s rock' is mixed into this album. Seo Taiji takes the 90s rock sound from the musicians who created it, takes it in, and breaks it up into music of new color."
- Myung Suk Kang, nzine.com