Tenor. Yim Ung-Kyun

1. The famous "loud voiced (stentorian) singer boy" of the neighborhood - Tenor Yim Ung kyun

Tenor Ung-kyun Yim, who'd sing [Mil-Yang A-ri-rang] magnificently, who'd take his handkerchief out of his pocket and wave it while he...

2. The First Time In My Life I Felt 'Vocalist First Place' Tenor Yim Ung kyun

Tuk-sum in the 50's were totally different from today. It was the last stop of a bus as well as the end of the subway line, so it got the...

3. 'The Lord' who saved me on the brink of death - Tenor Yim Ung kyun

I dated girls and sometimes skipped classes and that's how my life in university went on. At school, I was known to be hot-blooded. I was...

4. Deciding on studying abroad to jump over "The Wall of High-pitch Tone" - Tenor Yim Ung kyun

Although I look rough and dull on the outside, I'm actually a man with lots of tears. 7 months after we got ruined, when my mother passed...

5. While in Despair, 'Luck' rolled in - Tenor Yim Ung kyun

We headed for Rome after 2 months of learning the Italian language in Persia. I had to take the entrance exams at the Santa cecilia...

8. "Can't Win Pavarotti" - Tenor Yim Ung kyun

I told the story of learning the Bel canto vocalization from Magda Olivere before. Besides that episode, there were 2 more moments that...

9. Coming back to Kim-po airport as a 'beggar' - Tenor Yim Ung kyun

Before graduation I had to make a decision. Am I going to stay here in Italy, or should I go back to Korea. But here or there, I needed...

10. Singing 'Ta-hyang-sa-ri(Being absent from home)' with pride - Tenor Yim Ung kyun

"Why isn't my life working out" As the time went on after I came back from abroad, I started getting depressed. At the vocal class, the...

11. The obtained position as a professor through a 30 minute interview - Tenor Yim Ung kyun

As I got famous, I became a busy vocalist, in which two bodies wouldn't have been enough. It was like taking a plane to participate at...

12. "An Artist's Speech is Gold" - Tenor Yim Ung kyun

Once I had dinner with the chairman of a newspaper company. It was a gathering with other vocalists, but I started to emphasize, "Korean...

14. The 'great fortune', poor life studying abroad - Korean Tenor Ung-kyun Yim

There was something my wife and I always mentioned whenever we went up to high places. 'Why is it that there is no house with our name...