Sim Soo-bong
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Sim Soo-bong (심수봉) (born, arguably, September 11, 1955, Seosan, South Chungcheong) is a famous female South Korean singer. She made her debut in 1978 through MBC College Song Contest. She graduated from Myongji University.
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[edit] Personal life
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 was dead 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 with a second husband.
At that time, she suffered from an unknown disease so that she quit school and went to Mueui island near Incheon, and her mother was devoting herself to a new cult. She graduated from Inhwa Women's High School in Incheon.
[edit] After witnissing assassination of Park Chung Hee
- See also: Park Chung Hee assassination
She was one of the witnesses of a former South Korean president Park Chung Hee assassination. For being a witness to the incident, she could not be seen in television for nearly a decade. She had said that she was present as his banquet three times. In an interview given during later years, she contested a miscoception that he was a fan of enka. When she sang a song by Misora Hibari's Kanashii Sake, he had said, "Why did you bring a Japanese bitch to the banquet?"[1] For the first time, she discussed the incident to the Japanese press in November 2006. Her interview was published in Asahi Shimbun.[2]
[edit] Career as a singer
She met 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 didn't think that it would be successful.
In 1976, Sim applied to Sookmyung Women's University with a major of Composing but got rejected. In the following year, she got an admission from Myongji University with a major of Business administration.
In 1978, when she was 27, she appeared with her own song she wrote in MBC College Song Contest, and immediately she got media attention. That year, she made a hugh success with her first record which was a new-style trot music.
