Yun Sim-deok

She studied at the Pyongyang Girls' Middle and High Schools, and graduated from Kyongsong Women's Teaching College in Seoul in 1914.

In Japan, she met and fell in love with a married English literature student, Kim U-jin, with whom she had an affair.

Though audiences were impressed by her powerful voice, she was unable to make a living performing Western classical music,[1] and became a pop singer and actress to support herself.

[3] Yun and Kim U-jin committed suicide together in 1926, jumping off a passenger ship en route from Simonoseki to Busan.

[3] Yun's most famous recording, 1926's "Hymn of Death," is considered the first "popular" (yuhaeng changga) Korean song.