Word: yun
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Nearly 40 years ago, as a consequence of traveling to North Korea, composer Isang Yun was forced to leave his homeland of South Korea and go into exile in Germany. More than 30 years later, cellist Bong Ihn Koh ’08 would also live in South Korea and Berlin, discovering Yun’s music along...
...will make the journey that proved fateful for Yun, traveling to Pyongyang to perform Yun’s “Cello Concerto” as part of a festival honoring the composer, who died in 1995. The Isang Yun World Peace Concert, a rare event that brings together musicians from both North and South Korea, is a joint effort between the South’s Isang Yun Peace Foundation and the North’s Yun I Sang Music Institute. Koh will perform with the Isang Yun Orchestra and renowned Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra conductor Chung Myung-Whun...
...before the midterm elections that Democrats can sound tougher than the Bush Administration on national security, their argument is rooted in what's considered a strategic truth about Kim's regime. It is a government that, far from being crazy or irrational, is motivated entirely "by regime survival," says Yun Dukmin, a national-security specialist at Seoul's Institute for Foreign Affairs and National Security...
...Yun T. Ho ’07 said that he will be going down to the Gulf Coast with HRCF for personal reasons...
...DIED. SUN YUN-SUAN, 92, former Taiwan Premier and heir apparent to President Chiang Ching-kuo until a stroke forced him to withdraw from public life in 1984; in Taipei. An electrical engineer who rose to become president of the Taiwan Power Company before entering politics, Sun played a key role in the island's rapid economic development, guiding the creation of its prominent semiconductor industry. Taiwan President Chen Shui-bian hailed him as "the creator of Taiwan's 'economic miracle...