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He worked with a variety of media and is considered to be the founder of video art. Born in Seoul to a wealthy business family, Paik trained as a classical musician, spending time in Japan and West Germany, where he joined the Fluxus collective and developed a friendship with experimental composer John Cage. He moved to New York City in and began working with cellist Charlotte Moorman to create performance art.

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Soon after, he began to incorporate televisions and video tape recorders into his work, acquiring growing fame. A stroke in left him partially paralyzed for the last decade of his life. He was the youngest of three brothers and two sisters. His father [ ko ] , who in was revealed to be a Korean who collaborated with the Japanese during the latter's occupation of Korea, owned a major textile manufacturing firm.

As he was growing up, he was trained as a classical pianist. By virtue of his affluent background, Paik received an elite education in modern largely Western music through his tutors. In , during the Korean War , Paik and his family fled from their home in Korea , first fleeing to Hong Kong , but later moved to Japan.

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Paik graduated with a BA in aesthetics from the University of Tokyo in , where he wrote a thesis on the composer Arnold Schoenberg. Paik then moved to West Germany in to study music history with composer Thrasybulos Georgiades at Munich University. In , Paik returned to Tokyo to explore the country's advanced technologies. From , Paik was a member of the experimental art movement Fluxus.

In , Paik immigrated to the United States of America and began living in New York City, where he began working with classical cellist Charlotte Moorman , to combine his video, music, and performance.