A Grandfather-Granddaughter Duet in Seoul: Kira's PREMIUM Studio Trip
A solo booth session became a two-generation duet. How Kira turned her Seoul Trip into a recorded childhood memory with her grandfather at KING STUDIO.
If you're planning a Seoul Trip and want a memory that outlasts every photo, KING STUDIO in Seoul lets you record a real, produced track of any song you love — and for Kira, visiting from Russia with her grandfather, that turned into something none of us expected when she walked in. This is the story of how a solo session became a two-generation duet, filmed as a full music video on the PREMIUM experience.
- Why Kira Changed Her Song in the Booth
- The PREMIUM Session, Step by Step
- A Warm Seoul Afternoon
- KING STUDIO Services: Which One Fits Your Trip?
- Plan Your Own Seoul Studio Trip
Why Kira Changed Her Song in the Booth
Kira came to Seoul with her family looking for one thing: an experience from this trip they could keep hearing, not just remembering. She had planned to record a song of her own. But standing in the studio, she made a different call — and it's the reason this session is worth writing about.
Instead of a solo track, she chose "Пусть бегут неуклюже," the song from Cheburashka (Gena the Crocodile) that nearly every Russian grows up singing. In Russia it's the birthday song — the one tied to childhood, nostalgia, and a very specific kind of pure, uncomplicated joy. Its gentlest line is also its whole message: even on a grey, rainy day, if your heart stays bright, you can still be happy.
The reason she switched matters. This was a song she and her grandfather had sung together for years. Recording it as a duet, in a professional booth in Seoul, meant the two of them would leave with the same childhood melody — captured properly, in their own two voices, from a trip they took together. That's not a K-pop bucket-list moment; it's a family one. And it's exactly the kind of thing KING STUDIO's booth is built to hold onto, whatever the genre.
The challenge she walked in with was honest and human: her grandfather sang the melody with an ease that came from decades of it, while Kira's voice sat noticeably lower and more reserved beside him. For the duet to actually feel like a duet — two voices meeting, not one leading and one trailing — she needed to find a brighter, more confident delivery. That became the whole focus of the session.
Inside the Booth: The PREMIUM Session, Step by Step
Here's what the two hours actually looked like, in the order it happened.
STEP 1 Meeting the team.
Kira and her grandfather were welcomed by vocal director Lusia, producer Aiden, and the KING STUDIO team — the same studio and equipment working Korean artists use. On the PREMIUM tier, the session isn't just audio: a full K-pop-style music video is filmed alongside the recording, so the room is set up for both from the start.
STEP 2 Studio tour and gear.
Before a single note, they walked the space — the booth, the monitors, the mic they'd actually sing into. For a family who came for a memory, seeing the real room where Korean records get made is half the experience.
STEP 3 Warm-up and key check.
The song is written as a solo, so the first real problem to solve was structural: how do you split one melody line between two very different voices? Lusia checked both ranges against the backing track before anything was locked.
STEP 4 Rehearsal and the key decision — the heart of it.
This is where the session earned its shape. Lusia rebuilt a solo song into a genuine duet, working through the balance and the breathing between the two singers in real detail — who carries which phrase, where they hand off, where they land together. Her central direction was aimed squarely at Kira: draw out a brighter, more open tone so her voice could sit warmly next to her grandfather's instead of underneath it. It was patient, specific work — less about hitting notes, more about confidence.
STEP 5 Idol-style recording.
With parts divided, they recorded the way Korean artists do — voices tracked with care, phrases comped, the duet built up piece by piece rather than in one nervous pass. Because this was the PREMIUM experience, the music video was captured through the session, not staged separately afterward.
STEP 6 Final monitoring.
At the end, the two of them listened back to the finished duet together — the childhood song they'd sung informally for years, now returned to them as a proper, mixed and mastered recording, with a music video to match.
What separates PREMIUM from a basic recording is exactly what this family needed: not just a clean take-home master, but the filmed version of the moment — the visual record of a grandfather and granddaughter singing a song that already meant something, in a city they were seeing together. Current pricing for each tier is on the KING STUDIO service page.
KING STUDIO Recommends: A Warm Seoul Afternoon
Ikseon-dong Hanok Street
A walkable maze of restored hanok houses turned into cafés and tiny shops. Good for the same reason the duet worked: it's old and new at once. Best late afternoon when the light drops into the alleys.
- Budget: a coffee runs roughly $4–6.
📍Address (Google) : Ikseon-dong, Jongno-gu, Seoul
📍Address (Naver) : 서울 종로구 익선동
Gonggyecheon Stream
A restored stream cutting through downtown, quiet enough to hear yourself think. If it happens to rain while you're there, that's oddly fitting for this particular song. Free.
📍Address (Google) : Changsin-dong, Jongno-gu, Seoul
📍Address (Naver) : 서울 종로구 창신동
KING STUDIO Services: Which One Fits Your Trip?
- PREMIUM (what Kira booked) — everything in DIAMOND plus a full K-pop-style music video filmed during your session. This is the tier for people who want the visual memory, not only the audio — a grandfather-granddaughter duet, a solo bucket-list track, whatever you bring. You leave with both a produced recording and a video.
- DIAMOND — record the song you choose, get pitch and timing corrected, then mixed and mastered into a finished, take-home master. This is where a produced, keep-forever track begins.
- GOLD(Personal Vocal) — a 120-minute session: a diagnosis of your range, timbre, and vocal habits, personalized coaching and song recommendations, plus a hands-on ~30-minute recording experience in the booth. The deliverable is your PDF Personal Vocal report; the booth time is experiential and isn't given as a take-home file.
- K-Pop Making Class — for groups of 2–15, one song split into idol-style parts so everyone records their piece.
You can compare all four on the complete KING STUDIO service guide.
Plan Your Own Seoul Studio Trip
Kira came to Seoul for a memory and left with a song and a music video — a childhood melody, in two voices, from a trip she and her grandfather took together. Whatever song you'd choose, KING STUDIO can record it properly.
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📍Address (Google) : B1 52, Samseong-ro 75-gil, Gangnam-gu, Seoul
📍Address (Naver) : 서울시 강남구 삼성로 75길 52 B1
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