Performer: Yoon-Jee Kim

Question: what’s the connection between South Korea and 19th-century Bohemia? Answer: I have no idea, but there clearly is one, since Korean pianists Jaekyung Yoo and Yoon-Jee Kim play Smetana and Dvořák’s music as if they ingested it with their mothers’ milk.

We speak to Yoon-Jee Kim about growing up in Seoul and she explains in fascinating detail the differences between growing up here and in the US.