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After acclaimed South Korean cellist Bong-Ihn Koh ’08 finished performing Isang Yun’s cello concerto in Pyongyang, North Korea, on Friday night, a crowd of 30 girls surrounded his bus—but all they could do was wave good...
This year, however, nothing is getting in the way of Koh’s performance at the Isang Yun Music Festival, named for a late Korean composer...
...three-day event—a joint venture between South Korea’s Isang Yun Peace Foundation and North Korea’s National Isang Yun Institute—will include the first-ever performance of a piece by Isang Yun by both North and South Korean musicians together...
...Hong, the manager of the music business department at the Isang Yun Peace Foundation, wrote in an e-mail that the concert’s organizers invited Koh to perform Yun’s cello concerto because “Bong-Ihn’s playing Isang Yun’s music has the infinite possibility to contribute to the peace and reunification of North and South Korea...
...Music and life are part of the same continuum, not separate from each other. Even science is an art for Koh—the art of “interpreting data.” Besides cellos and cells, Koh is also concerned about peace and cites exiled Korean composer Isang Yun as his source of inspiration. Although a native South Korean, Koh lived in Germany during his teens, where he learned of Yun. Listening to Yun’s music and biography, he realized that “where there’s pain, an artist needs to express that...