'I want to be Korea's Michael Jackson,' Eddy Kim says
A teaser image for Eddy Kim's new album “Miles Apart” / Courtesy of Mystic EntertainmentBy Kwak Yeon-soo“Ranking No.1 on the Billboard Hot 100 and being dubbed Korea's Michael Jackson are what I've dreamed of since I was 14,” an aspiring singer-songwriter Eddy Kim told reporters at a press event to promote his third mini album “Miles Apart” in Seoul, Thursday. “Those dreams are still valid.”Making a comeback after a three-year-and-nine-month hiatus, Kim's new album fronted by the single “Trace” is themed around a breakup, and the lyrics are about a man's struggle to move past the prolonged absence of his lover. The 28-year-old singer took a major role in the writing of each of the tracks on the album.“It took me a while to make a new album because I tend to self-edit a lot. Every time I come up with a song, I'm like 'This won't do, that isn't good enough.' So the songs won't stock up,” Kim said. “But I finally completed a list of songs earlier this year, and this album has become my favorite collection of s
