[100 Years Ago Today] August 4, 1926 - At 4 A.M. in the Korea Strait, Korea's first soprano disappears

1. At 4 a.m. on August 4, 1926, Yun Sim-deok and Kim U-jin threw themselves into the sea from the Deoksuhwan ferry, bound for Busan.
2. Yun Sim-deok, Korea's first soprano, and Kim U-jin, a playwright; it happened as the ship passed near Tsushima, and there were no witnesses or suicide notes.
3. The Dong-A Ilbo reported the news across a full page a few days later, and the term 'lovers' suicide' was a name the newspaper itself gave to the incident.

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