Jaebong Rho is a composer who approaches music as a medium to convey messages and provoke thought. Drawing inspiration from contemporary social issues, he weaves these themes into musical structures that engage audiences and encourage reflection. morii (2022) evokes a collective longing for a sense of return, a sentiment increasingly observed across global societies. "i want to go home." (2023/24), which deeply connected with audiences and explores dementia, raises thought-provoking questions about aging societies. His recent piece, diorama (2024/25), engages with the interplay between truth and falsehood in the post-truth era. Focusing on how something that appears undeniably false to one person can be perceived as absolute truth—or even an ideology—by another, it examines the resulting conflicts and social divisions. He received two artist grants from the Busan Cultural Foundation, which supported his portrait recitals in 2021 and 2023. He later won the commission competition of the Busan Philharmonic Orchestra, resulting in the premiere of his orchestral work morii (2022). He participated in the Composers’ Atelier Program of the Korean National Symphony Orchestra and was subsequently appointed Composer-in-Residence with the orchestra for the 2024/25 season. In recent years, he was selected for the Lucerne Festival Academy, where his work stone (2025) was premiered by the IEMA-Ensemble as part of the Lucerne Summer Festival, and he has been named a 2026 Composition Fellow at the Aspen Music Festival and School. He received First Prize in the Ensemble Écoute Composition Competition, leading to a new commission to be premiered in 2026. He has also been honored with the ASCAP Foundation Morton Gould Young Composer Award and the ARTZenter Emerging Composer Completion Grant, and was most recently named a winner of the 2025 Remus Georgescu International Music Festival Competition, where keep it. (2025) was premiered in Timișoara, Romania. As a film composer and composer, he collaborated with the Busan Cinema Center and the Korean Academy of Film Arts, participating in the music production for approximately 20 short and feature films. These films were screened at major festivals, including the Busan International Film Festival, Barcelona Asian Summer Film Festival, and Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival. He has participated in masterclasses with composers including Texu Kim, Dieter Ammann, Aaron Jay Kernis, Unsuk Chin, and Beat Furrer. He earned his Bachelor of Music in Composition from Pusan National University, where he studied with Sooran Jeong, and is currently pursuing a Master of Music in Composition at the Yale School of Music under Aaron Jay Kernis, Christopher Theofanidis, Katherine Balch, and David Lang.