Kim Min-ki

Korean spelling
Hangeul	김민기
Hanja	金 珉 基
Revised Romanization	Gim Min-gi
McCune- Reischauer	Kim Minki
See also : Korean name

Kim Min-ki (* 31 March 1951 in Jeollanam-do ) is a South Korean folk rock - singer , songwriter and theater director .

Life

Kim graduated from Seoul National University . He became known in 1970 with his composition 아침 이슬 (Morning Dew), which became a well-known protest song . The protest song genre that originated in South Korea in the 1970s against the military dictatorship of Park Chung-hee is called Norae Undong and Kim became one of the most prominent exponents of this genre. He influenced political activism with a new musical movement and was part of a rebellious student movement. One of his most famous songs is 가을 편지 (Autumn Letter), which is like morning dewwas actually not conceived as a protest song and was performed by other performers. He released nine albums by 1975, but from that year his music was subjected to censorship and his music was banned from stores and the public. In the following years he began to write plays, but also continued to influence and promote young folk musicians such as Kim Kwang-seok . His best-known piece is the Korean adaptation of the German rock musical Line 1 , which was first performed in 1994. By 2007 it had been performed over 1,000 times, including in Japan and the People's Republic of China . On 22 March 2007 he was in Weimar by Jutta Limbach , the Goethe Medal awarded as an outstanding personality for his particular commitment to international cultural dialogue. Contact with Volker Ludwig and the Berlin Grips Theater was established through the mediation of the Goethe Institute in Seoul .

Awards (selection)

• 2007: Goethe Medal
• 2013: Korean Music Awards
• 2020: Ho Am Prize for Art

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Provine, Hwang, and Hershaw. Korea . The Rough Guide to World Music , Vol. 2. Rough Guides, 2000, p. 165.
2. ↑ Goethe Medal 2007 awarded . German Music Information Center of the German Music Council from March 22, 2007

Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Korean. Kim is the family name here, Min-ki is the first name.