Dalpalan (born Kang Ki-young on July 16, 1966) is a South Korean film score composer and music director. He was a first-generation Korean heavy metal and electronic musician and a former member of the bands Sinawe, H₂O and Pipi Band.

He began making film music in 1997 with the film "Bad Movie" and made his full-fledged debut two years later with the film "Lies" (1999). In 2002, Dalparan, Jang Young-gyu, Bang Jun-seok, and Lee Byeong-hoon established the film music group "Pitch Present." Dalparan frequently collaborates with musician Jang Young-gyu, a fellow member of Pitch Present, on several film scores, including A Bittersweet Life (2005), The Good, the Bad, the Weird (2008), The Front Line (2011), The Thieves (2012), Assassination (2015), and The Wailing (2016). As music director he is also known for his work in the film Vanishing Time: A Boy Who Returned (2017), Believer (2018), Samjin Company English Class (2019), and Phantom (2023).

Dalpalan was born on July 16, 1966 as Kang Ki-young in Seoul. He attended Yongsan High School. In high school, he became close friends with Shin Dae-cheol, son of the legendary singer-songwriter Shin Joong-hyun.

After graduating from high school, Kang Ki-young started his music career as a bassist for the band Little Sky (1986) with Lee Ho-gyu, Lee Geun-hyung, and Kim Jong-seo. Kang then joined the heavy metal band Sinawe with Shin Dae-cheol (guitar), Kim Jong-seo, and Kim Min-ki. He left during the recording of their first album, but later returned for their second.

He then formed the band H₂O with Kim Min-gi (drums) and Park Hyun-jun (guitar) and did first album Don't Worry. He worked on the second and third albums of H₂O, which had an alternative genre. He stopped promoting with H₂O in 1993 as he no longer found rock music appealing. He expressed concerns about the authoritarian spirit of rock. In 1994, he spent a year in Paris, France to relax and pursue painting. It was during this time that he discovered techno music, which was booming in Europe. He realized that he could become disconnected from the international music scene if he didn't adapt to the changing trends.

After coming home to Korea, in 1995, Dalpalan formed the neo-punk a Pipi Band with guitarist Park Hyeon-joon, whom he met at H₂O, and experimented with punk music. The vocalist they discovered, Lee Yoon-jeong, immediately drew attention with her singing style and her unique fashion style and free-spiritedness reminiscent of Pippi Longstocking.

After Lee Yoon-jeong's departure, the band changed its name to "Pippi Long Stocking with Goguma (Kwon Byeong-jun)" and continued performing. However, their unconventional actions, such as stopping performances and spitting at a camera during a live music ranking program, led to a ban from future appearances. The band eventually disbanded. Despite their short-lived existence, Pippi Long Stocking's musical experiments had a lasting impact on the culture of the time, introducing punk to a music industry dominated by ballads and dance music, incorporating techno into songs such as 'Strawberry'. It was contributing to the emergence of an indie scene.

In late 1997, Kang Ki-young became deeply engaged with techno music. At that time, there were only around a dozen DJs active in the Hongdae area, most of whom were either night club DJs or rock cafe DJs, excluding those focused on hip-hop. Around this same period, techno DJs began to emerge, with musicians gradually getting involved in the scene casually for enjoyment. Prior to this, he had considered trying his hand at DJing and ultimately decided to pursue it. He selected the stage name 'Dalparan,' which derives from 'blue moon' in Korean, reversing the order of the words to create a more melodic-sounding name in the Korean language.