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Say Sue Me

South Korean indie rock band

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 12, 2026
Entity authorityQ61847417 ↗
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Say Sue Me (Korean: 세이수미) is an indie rock band from Busan, South Korea, currently consisting of members Sumi Choi, Byungkyu Kim, Sungwan Lim, and Jaeyoung Kim.

The group formed in 2012 and has released three full-length albums: We've Sobered Up (2014), Where We Were Together (2018) and The Last Thing Left (2022); and four extended plays: Big Summer Night (2015), Semin (2017), It's Just a Short Walk! (2018), and Christmas, It's Not a Biggie (2018).

Say Sue Me won Best Modern Rock Album and Best Modern Rock Song at the 2019 Korean Music Awards.

Biography

Childhood friends Byungkyu (guitar), Jaeyoung Ha (bass), and Semin (drums) met Sumi (vocals) at a tea shop in the Nampo-dong neighborhood of Busan in 2012. The three liked Sumi's speaking voice and immediately offered her a spot as the vocalist in their new band that would become Say Sue Me.

Say Sue Me released their debut album, We've Sobered Up, in 2014, followed by their first EP, Big Summer Night, in 2015. The albums reached No. 64 and No. 79, respectively, on South Korea's Gaon Album Chart.

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