1. Sim Min-kyung, known professionally as Sim Soo-bong, is a South Korean singer.
13 Facts About Sim Soo-bong
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Sim Soo-bong was one of the witnesses of the 1979 assassination of South Korean president Park Chung Hee.
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Sim Soo-bong was born to a Korean traditional folk song collector, Sim Jae-deok, who was a Korean traditional music lecturer in Ewha Womans University.
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Sim Soo-bong's uncle, Sim Sa-geon, was a Pansori singer and her aunt, Sim Hwa-yeong, was a traditional dancer, Seungmu.
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Sim Soo-bong's mother had been a student of her father.
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Sim Soo-bong retreated to a small island near Incheon, and her mother devoted herself to a new cult.
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Sim Soo-bong graduated from Inhwa Women's High School in Inchon.
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Sim Soo-bong met trot singer Nah Hoon-ah in 1975 who was a top singer at that time.
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In 1976, Sim Soo-bong applied to Sookmyung Women's University as a composition major but was rejected.
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Sim Soo-bong was one of the witnesses of the 1979 assassination of South Korean president Park Chung Hee.
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Sim Soo-bong has said that she was present at his banquet three times.
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In 2012 Sim Soo-bong 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.
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Sim Soo-bong was banned from TV and radio until 1981, and was kept under observation for many years.