Sim Soo-bong

Sim Min-kyung (; born July 11, 1955), known professionally as Sim Soo-bong , is a South Korean singer. When she was a senior at Myongji University, she debuted in 1978 through MBC College Song Contest at which she performed her self-composed song "Geuddae Geu Saram" . She was one of the witnesses of the 1979 assassination of South Korean president Park Chung Hee.

Early life and education 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. By 13, she was adept at playing drum, piano, and guitar. Due to being a witness to the incident, she was banned from television until 1981. She 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?" For the first time, she discussed the incident to the Japanese press in November 2006. Her interview was published in The Asahi Shimbun.

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.

In addition to her ban from broadcasting media, Sim faced prolonged surveillance by governmental authorities during the Fifth Republic. Her 1984 release "Men are Ships, Women are Ports" initially faced censorship concerns before becoming a nationwide success. Hanteo Awards: Album Award (Trot), 2010 and 2013