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[100 Years Ago Today] August 5, 1926 - A Singer and a Playwright Who Threw Themselves into the Hyeonhaetan Sea Shake Mourning Korea
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- In the early morning of August 4, 1926, the singer Yun Simdeok and the playwright Kim Ujin vanished together from the ferry Deoksuhwan, which was sailing from Shimonoseki to Busan.
- The two had been listed on the passenger manifest as Kim Susan and Yun Suseon, and search teams combed the Hyeonhaetan for several days without finding any trace of them.
- Coming just over a hundred days after the death of King Sunjong, the news further unsettled a Korea already overshadowed by grief, and it spread again a few months later through the record "Saui Chanmi."
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Official translation → Read the full article (machine translation) → Original article (Korean): [100년 전 오늘] 1926년 8월 5일 – 현해탄에 몸을 던진 성악가와 극작가, 국상 중인 조선을 뒤흔들다
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