SEOUL, July 22 (AJU PRESS) – Singer, composer and playwright Kim Min-ki died of problems from abdomen most cancers on Sunday, his household mentioned the next day. He was 73.
He had been identified with terminal abdomen most cancers late final 12 months and courageously battled the sickness. He was taken to a hospital in Goyang, Gyeonggi Province when his situation all of a sudden worsened over the weekend.
Born in 1951, the versatile artist began composing songs whereas he was a pupil at Seoul Nationwide College, however his early profession confronted obstacles as lots of his songs had been topic to authorities censorship. One in every of his songs, “Morning Dew,” grew to become massively standard amongst protesters through the navy dictatorships of the Seventies and 80s.
In his later years, Kim based Hakchon, a theater in central Seoul in 1991 and staged “Subway Line 1,” the Korean adaption of the German musical in 1994. The rock musical remained a staple of the theater, operating for practically three many years. By the point its last curtain fell in 2023, it had been carried out over 8,000 occasions, attracting greater than 700,000 audiences.
The theater served because the birthplace of many notable Korean actors like Cho Seung-woo, Hwang Jung-min, and Sol Kyung-gu, till its closure in March this 12 months as a result of monetary constraints.
A funeral will probably be held at Seoul Nationwide College Hospital in Seoul on Wednesday. He’s survived by his spouse and two sons.
