Introducing Nam Won-Sik: A New Kind of Dark Pop
Nam Won-sik doesn’t ask for attention — he takes the room by simply existing.
Today, DRECK Magazine premieres Glassball, the debut single from the Korean model-turned-writer-turned-musician who has been quietly orbiting Europe and Asia before choosing, finally, to step into full view.
Glassball is not interested in being palatable. It doesn’t chase trends, scenes, or anyone’s approval. Instead, it pulls you into a fractured, dream-logic universe where memory stutters, beauty turns cold, and the line between real and imagined snaps like glass under pressure.
The video — a hybrid of vintage surveillance textures, eerie animation, and a few raw shots of Won-sik himself — feels like a confession delivered through a broken monitor. There’s something unsettling about how calmly he looks back at you. Directed and animated by the artist and his team, the video feels like a lost tape from a future past. It feels almost voyeuristic — like watching him through a security monitor he turned toward himself.
Musically, Glassball sits somewhere between dark indie, ghost-pop, and the emotional numbness of late-night anime soundtracks. It’s clean, sharp, emotionally detached in exactly the way you expect from someone who has lived too many lives for his age. It isn’t a “debut from a rising artist.” It’s a declaration from someone who already knows who he is.
“I didn’t want to look perfect. I wanted to look real.” — Nam Won-Sik
Won-Sik is not an unfamiliar face — his modeling work has drifted across Europe and Korea for years — but “Glassball” marks the first time he lets the audience into the internal world he usually hides behind sharp cheekbones and colder-than-you expressions.
“People expect you to be soft, grateful, humble,” he says. “I’m not here to play nice. I’m here to show you the inside of the glass. It’s cracked. That’s the point.”
There is something shamelessly unfiltered in the way he presents himself:
the genderfluid, openly gay Korean artist who lets beauty and bruises coexist without apology.
There is no performance of perfection — only exposure.
The Sound of a Shattered Surface
“Glassball” feels like walking into someone’s memory from the wrong door.
The production carries a vintage-digital hybridity, with slow-burn drums, glitch-burn textures, and a deceptively calm vocal delivery that sits exactly on the edge between vulnerability and threat. The lyrics, co-written with long-time collaborator Elina Ch-Won, move between emotional numbness and razor-sharp clarity. It’s a song about mirrors that tell the truth too directly.
Nothing in it begs for mainstream approval — which is exactly why it stands out.
This is the beginning of a world. Not a one-off.
Watch the official video for “Glassball”
Listen to “Glassball” on Spotify
Credits
Artist: Nam Won-Sik
Lyrics: Nam Won-Sik, Elina Chi-Won.
Visual Direction & Animation: Rick Park, Thomas Sticher, Nam Won-Sik
Production: Nam Won-Sik
Label: Thauma Media Distribution: CD Baby
Short Artist Bio
Nam Won-Sik is a Korean model, writer, and musician navigating the space between Europe and Asia. Genderfluid, openly gay, and unmistakably himself, his work explores identity, emotional darkness, and the beauty of inner fracture. “Glassball” is his debut music release — a quiet rebellion disguised as a pop song.
