A South Korean housewife broke a world record in marathon singing after singing for more than 76 hours without stopping at a Seoul karaoke bar, local record verifiers said last Saturday.
Kim Sun-Ok, 54, broke the 75-hour Guinness World Record held by Marcus Lapratt of the US, the private Korea Record Institute said.
She started singing at 11:14am on Thursday and sang a total of 1,283 tunes before she gave up at 3:21pm on Saturday following her family’s appeal for her to quit for the sake of her health, it said.
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Under Guinness World Record regulations, she was given 30-second breaks between songs and five-minute breaks every hour. She wasn’t allowed to sing any song she had already sung less than four hours earlier, it said.
“My sister has had a very strong sense of determination since she was young. Once she sets her mind to anything, she finishes it,” her brother, Kwang-Jin, was quoted as telling South Korea’s Yonhap news agency.
(AFP)
南韓的世界紀錄認證員上週六表示，一名家庭主婦在首爾一家卡拉OK酒吧連續唱歌七十六個多小時，打破歌唱馬拉松的世界紀錄。
民間機構「韓國紀錄協會」表示，五十四歲的金善玉（音譯）打破美國馬科思．拉普拉特所保持的七十五個小時金氏世界紀錄。
該機構說，她從上週四上午十一點十四分開始唱歌，總共唱了一千兩百八十三首歌後，家人以健康為由勸她放棄，她才於上週六下午三點二十一分停唱。
根據金氏世界紀錄的規定，她在每首歌之間可休息三十秒，每小時可以休息五分鐘；她也不得重複唱四小時內唱過的歌曲。
她弟弟金光鎮接受韓國聯合通訊社訪問時說：「我姊姊從小就有無比堅定的決心，一旦立定心意，就一定要完成。」（法新社�翻譯：袁星塵）
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