Sim Soo-bong
| Sim Soo-bong | |
|---|---|
| Birth name | Sim Min-kyung |
| Born | September 11, 1955 |
| Origin | Seosan, South Chungcheong |
| Genres | teuroteu |
| Occupation(s) | Singer, Songwriter |
| Years active | 1978–present |
| Website | http://www.simsoobong.com |
| Birth name | |
| Hangul | 심민경 |
|---|---|
| Hanja | 沈玟卿 |
| Revised Romanization | Sim Min-gyeong |
| McCune–Reischauer | Sim Min-gyŏng |
| Stage name | |
| Hangul | 심수봉 |
| Hanja | 沈守峰 |
| Revised Romanization | Sim Su-bong |
| McCune–Reischauer | Sim Su-bong |
Sim Min-kyung (born September 11, 1955) is South Korean singer known professionally as Sim Soo-bong. When she was a senior at Myongji University, she debuted in 1978 through MBC College Song Contest (Korean: MBC 대학가요제) at which she performed her self-composed song "Geuddae Geu Saram" (그때 그사람).
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.
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.
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.
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