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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...
...Koh said he felt pressure to represent South Korean musicians to the North Korean orchestra as well as possible. At their first rehearsal, the day after his arrival, Koh said, the North Korean conductor insisted on three run-throughs of the concerto...
...performance, Yun’s 80-year-old widow, who had been crying during the performance, stumbled on-stage to congratulate Koh. The two sobbed and embraced...
...wonderful moment,” Koh said in an interview yesterday...
...Koh was slated to play in a nearly identical concert, but the performance was cancelled due to international unrest sparked by North Korea’s first nuclear tests...