Word: yun
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Bong Ihn Koh ’08, a Cabot House resident from South Korea and a gifted cellist, was to make a journey next week to North Korea to perform in the Isang Yun World Peace concert, an event that would have brought together musicians from North and South Korea. But due to recent tensions generated by reports of a North Korean nuclear test last Monday, Koh will no longer be participating...
...perform in Pyongyang with the South Korean conductor Chung Myung-Whun, who will also not be participating, wrote in an e-mail that he is "utterly disappointed" that he will not be performing in the concert commemorating the 89th birthday of the late Korean composer, Isang Yun...
...concert, scheduled for Oct. 20, would have been the first joint tribute to Yun by the two Koreas...
...event itself is taking place, but the South Korean performers will not be participating this time," said an official of the Isang Yun Peace Foundation in Seoul—the South Korean organization planning the concert with the North—in a phone interview with The Crimson. The official asked not to be named because of the sensitive nature of the situation...
...Isang Yun, a South Korean composer, was arrested in 1967 and sentenced to death for alleged communist ties after he visited North Korea in order to organize concerts that would involve musicians from both countries. Yun was eventually released and lived in exile in Germany until his death...