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TIL about Yun Sim-deok, known as Korea's first soprano. Her song "Hymn of Death" became Korea's first pop song; selling 100,000 copies after her death in 1926. Yun had been having an affair with the married writer Kim Woo-jin and the pair committed suicide together by jumping off a passenger ship.

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