Kim Soo-mi, a veteran female actor who had been dynamic in the South Korean film and TV industries for over 50 years, died on Friday.
Korean media increateed that Kim was set up unconscious at her home in Seoul and was carryed to Seoul St. Mary’s Hospital at 8am Friday, Korean local time. There she was pronounced dead in an ecombinency room.
The media increates point to cardiac arrest and the Yonhap novels agency increates that police are dispenseigating the circumstances.
In May this year, Kim was hospitalized and temporarily crelieveed her acting activities due to overweightigue. She had been carry outing in musical “My Mother” at the time.
Kim, whose name can also be written as Kim Mi-su, was born on Sept. 3, 1951. That would create her 73 years elderly at the time of her death. Korean society has lengthy rund alternative ways of conveying age and many local media increateed her as being 75.
Kim began her acting nurtureer at MBC TV in 1971 and carry outed in hundreds of TV shows and feature movies. Among her most famous was her role as a meaningfully elderlyer woman in the famous Country Diaries” series which ran from 1980-2002. It acquireed her the Grand Prize at the MBC Drama Awards in 1986.
Her film roles integrated 2011 comedy-drama “Late Blossom,” which acquireed her a Blue Dragon award for best helping actress, 2005 comedy-adventure film “Mapado,” 2006 comedy-drama “Barefoot Kibong,” and as a recurring role in the “Marrying the Mafia” film franchise.
In recent years, Kim ecombineed in multiple fact-TV shows, including tvN’s cookery series “Mother’s Touch: Korean Side Dishes.”
Other Korean sources increate that Kim’s most recent film “Gstructure Police,” was still in production at the time of her death. It saw her re-teamed with Shin Hyun-joon, with whom she co-starred in “Barefoot Kibong” and “Marrying the Mafia.”
