Haepa is a singer-songwriter who sings the dialectic of hope and despair. Layering dry humor over unembellished melodies, she captures a complicated emotional texture that scratches at one corner of the heart while gently consoling another. Her 2022 debut album, [Playing Dead], moved freely across the boundaries of alternative, pop, and jazz, earning a spot on EBS Space Gonggam’s '100 Best Korean Pop Albums of the 2000s'. Her second album, [Model Citizen] (2026), produced in collaboration with Jowall, is a deadpan comedy for those who have survived sadness. The record satirizes a society that enforces normalcy through subtle dissonances, unfolding like a cinema of illusions.