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Suni and the Seven Princesses are famous in South Korea, appearing in commercials and going viral on social media. With an average age of 85, they are probably the oldest rap group in the country. Park Jeom-sun, 82, and her seven longtime friends were born when women were often marginalized in education. They were learning how to read and write the Korean alphabet, hangeul, at a community center in their farming village in the rural southeast when they started dabbling with poetry, and began writing and performing rap in summer last year. Kang Hye-eun, Park's 29-year-old granddaughter and a local healthcare worker who helps older adults, said she was proud to see her grandmother on television and in viral videos. “It’s amazing that she got to know hangeul like this and has started to rap,” she said.