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Sim Soo-bong
by Anne Tran
Works Cited
About
Notable Works
Sim Soo-bong
- Birth Name: Sim Min-Kyung
- Born: July 11, 1955
- Birthplace: Seosan, South Chungcheong
- Education:
-Eunro Elementary School
-Inhwa Women's High School
-Myeongji University
*majored in Business Administration
Sim Soo-bong (cont.)
- Family:
- Sim Jae Deok (father)
-Korean Folk Song collector/ Traditional Music Lecturer at Ewha Woman's University
-Pansori singer
-Traditional dancer
Famous Songs
- "Geuddae Geu Saram" - 1979
- "Man is a Ship, Woman is a Harbor" -1984
- "All I Know is Love" - 1994
- Featured in Boys over Flowers, Jandi singing
- "A Million Roses"
- Originally a Latvian song composed by Raimond Pauls in 1981, covered by many artists
- Davichi, Kim Jonghyun from SHINEE did a cover
"All I Know Is Love"
In the Aftermath of the Assassination
Resources
- Continued to pursue career
- Quietly released albums due to ban on television
- After ban was lifted, she returned in 1984
- Continued to create more songs and held concerts
- "The President's Last Bang," 2005
Music
- Won the MBC College Song Contest with a self-composed song
Decline in Public Career
- Sim Soo-Bong became a huge success with her first record
New style of trot music
*adopted Western Jazz + traditional ballad
- Performed at a private dinner for Park Chung-hee
*Park Chung-hee assassinated by Kim Jae-kyu
- Sim Soo-bong witnessed assassination
- Due to being a witness, she was
banned from television and radio until 1981
- Incarcerated and placed in the mental hospital
Timeline of Events after Assassination
1982: Appeared in movie "Overwhelmingly Dedicated"
1983: Created theme song for drama "SunJa's Autumn" Ban of drama's song "Love will Change in this Autumn"
1984: Ban on television appearances is lifted and releases album "Men are Ships, Women the Harbor"
1985: Releases album "MuGungHwa"
1988: Releases album "I Hate You"
1991: Releases album "We Are Strangers"
1994: Releases album "BiNaRi" and writes two autobiographies titled "I Know Nothing Else But Love"
1993-1995: DJ of Radio show "Sim Soo-bong's Trot Album"
1997: "A Million Roses" wins Golden Best Award.
1996-2006: Held concerts and came out with songs
2007: Came out with 11th album
2008: Praise Cafe
2009: MNET Asian Music Awards, received 2009 MAMA "Hall of Fame" award, 30 year anniversary concert.
2010: "The Person of That Time" wins first in "People's Choice,"
2011: First appearance in KBS2 TV program "Lasting Legendary Songs"
Start of Career
- Sookmyung Women's University
with Composition major
(rejected)
- Myeongji University under Business Administration
- Career took off due to MBC College Song Contest in 1978
Early Life of Sim Soo-Bong
- Became skilled at piano, drums and guitar by age of 13
- Hiatus from school due to an unknown disease and moved to Incheon
- Met teuroteu singer Nah Hoon-ah in 1975
-attempted to sign her to Sinsegi records
Career
Early Life