TV series

Hymn of Death

2018 · 1 season

A slow, sorrowful romance that lingers like a sad song, beautiful and heavy with inevitable loss.

Tagline: The last song sung at the end of life.
Overview: 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.
How it feels: Melancholic, romantic, earnest and bleak. Slow-burning and needs your attention.
About: Love, grief, betrayal, identity
Content: Mild violence, sexual content and language. No gore.
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Tone: melancholicstrength 3 of 3
romanticstrength 2 of 3
earneststrength 2 of 3
bleakstrength 1 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: love
grief
betrayal
identity
art
Places: big city
school
Era: period
Audience: adult
Form: true story
serialised
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex mild