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 Yoon Shim Duk, Korea's first professional soprano, who meet while studying at Tokyo University in the 1920s. Yoon Shim Duk's recording of "Death Song" became the first Korean pop song in 1926.
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About Hymn of Death
- Title
- Hymn of Death
- Original language
- Korean
- Country of origin
- South Korea
- Release year
- 2018
- Status
- Ended
- Average runtime
- 35 min
- Format
- Drama series
Hymn of Death is a Korean drama series from South Korea, released in 2018. Most international viewers experience Hymn of Death through translated subtitles — the quality of those subtitles directly shapes how much of the original story, humor, and character voice survives the language gap.
Watching Hymn of Death with English subtitles paired to the original Korean audio is the preferred choice for language learners and fans who want to preserve the performance. Dubbed audio compresses timing and swaps voice actors; subtitled Korean keeps the original delivery intact.
OmniSubs generates context-aware English subtitles for Hymn of Death using multimodal AI that reads tone, character relationships, and cultural references — things literal translation misses. The subtitle file you download works with any player (VLC, Plex, Infuse, your streaming service’s player, even Kodi). You can preview and edit before downloading.
Cast
Lee Jong SukKim Woo JinPhoto: TVmaze 
Shin Hye SunYoon Shim DukPhoto: TVmaze
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