Hymn of Death

About Hymn of Death

Based on a true story, the drama tells the tragic love story of Kim Woo Jin, a married stage drama writer, and Yun Shim Duk, Korea's first professional soprano, who meet while studying at Tokyo University in the 1920s. Yun Shim Duk's recording of "Death Song" became the first Korean pop song in 1926.

Hymn of Death is a drama series made for SBS. It ran for one season of 6 episodes between November 2018 and December 2018.

Lee Jong-suk appears as Kim Woo-jin, Shin Hae-sun as Yoon Sim-duk, Park Sun-im as Jung Jum-hyo, and Lee Ji-hoon as Hong Nan-pa. The series began as real events.

Members will find infidelity, forbidden love, 1920s, and arranged marriage in it.

Doctor Zhivago, Scarlet Heart: Ryeo, and Mildred Pierce make useful companions to Hymn of Death. It scores 8.3 out of 10 from 113 TMDB voters and it carries a TV-14 rating.