South Korean singer
Sim Min-kyung
[1]
(
Korean
:
심민경
; born July 11, 1955), known professionally as
Sim Soo-bong
(
심수봉
), is a South Korean singer. When she was a senior at
Myongji University
, she debuted in 1978 through
MBC
College Song Contest (
Korean
:
MBC 大學歌謠祭
) at which she performed her self-composed song "Geuddae Geu Saram" (
그때 그사람
). She was one of the witnesses of the
1979 assassination
of South Korean president
Park Chung Hee
.
Personal life
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She was born to a Korean traditional folk song collector, Sim Jae-deok, who was a
Korean traditional music
lecturer in
Ewha Womans University
. He died when Sim was 3 years old. Her uncle, Sim Sa-geon, was a
Pansori
singer and her aunt, Sim Hwa-yeong, was a
traditional dancer
,
Seungmu
. Her mother had been a student of her father.
Sim learned to play the piano when she was an elementary school student in
Seosan
, and later she came to
Seoul
and attended Eunro Elementary School in
Heukseok-dong
after her mother had been divorced from a second husband. By 13, she was adept at playing drum, piano, and guitar.
[1]
At that time, she suffered from an unknown disease causing her to quit school. She retreated to a small island near
Incheon
, and her mother devoted herself to a new
cult
. She graduated from Inhwa Women's High School in Incheon.
Career as a singer
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She met
trot
singer
Nah Hoon-ah
in 1975 who was a top singer at that time. Nah was impressed by her singing and introduced to Sinsegi Records but her album was not able to come out to the market because the record company did not think that it would be successful.
In 1976, Sim applied to
Sookmyung Women's University
as a
composition
major but was rejected. In the following year, she was admitted to
Myongji University
with a major of
Business administration
.
In 1978, when she was 23, she appeared with her own song she wrote in
MBC
College Song Contest, and immediately she got media attention. That year, she made a huge success with her first record which was a new-style
trot music
.
After witnessing the assassination of Park Chung-hee
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She was one of the witnesses of the 1979 assassination of South Korean president
Park Chung Hee
. Park was a fan of Sim, and Sim had performed for the former president before the assassination.
[2]
For being a witness to the incident, she was banned from television until 1984.
[3]
She has said that she was present at his banquet three times. In an interview given during later years, she contested a misconception that he was a fan of
enka
. When she sang a song by
Misora Hibari
("Kanashii Sake"), President Park yelled angrily, "Who brought a Japanese girl?"
[4]
For the first time, she discussed the incident to the Japanese press in November 2006. Her interview was published in
The Asahi Shimbun
.
[5]
In 2012 Sim admitted that, after the assassination, she had been incarcerated in a prison and then held in a mental institution for nearly a month, before she was released. She was banned from TV and radio until 1981, and was kept under observation for many years.
[6]
Awards
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References
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題目: <思想家 도올이 만난 사람> '10.26現場의 그 女人' 심수봉
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"심수봉 "김재규는 무섭게 입을 다물고 있었다"
"
. Archived from
the original
on January 27, 2007
. Retrieved
August 25,
2007
.
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"프로필"
프로필
.
at
SimSooBong.com
(in Korean). Archived from
the original
on September 28, 2007
. Retrieved
August 25,
2007
.
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"심수봉 "朴正熙 大統領, 엔카 듣고 火냈다 ("Sim Soo-bong: President Park Chung Hee was Angry Hearing Enka")"
.
at
Media Daum
(in Korean). Archived from
the original
on November 16, 2006
. Retrieved
April 10,
2007
.
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"歌手 심수봉氏, 日 아사히신문에 10·26 祕話 公開 ("Singer Sim Soo-bong: Makes Public a Secret Story of 10/26 in Japan's Asahi Shimbun")"
.
at
Media Daum
(in Korean). Archived from
the original
on July 12, 2012
. Retrieved
April 10,
2007
.
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"Singer Sim admits incarceration after President Park's assassination"
. February 14, 2012.
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"2009 M.net Korean Music Festival Winners list"
Archived
January 27, 2013, at the
Wayback Machine
.
MAMA
. Retrieved December 14, 2014.
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"2010 Hanteo Trot Album Award"
.
Archived
from the original on July 1, 2017
. Retrieved
November 24,
2022
.
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"2013 Hanteo Trot Album Award"
.
Archived
from the original on July 2, 2017
. Retrieved
November 24,
2022
.
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