Composer Jung Jae-il, best known for scoring “Parasite” (2019) and “Squid Game” (2021-25), described writing his first stand-alone orchestral work as “hellish” — a creative struggle that will culminate this week when the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra premieres his new piece “Inferno.”

“It had to begin and end within the music,” he said during a press conference on Tuesday. “That’s why I went through hellish, despairing days. When I first submitted the score and recording, I felt like an elementary school student waiting to be graded.”

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