Tag: SUN HEE KIM

I first met my teacher, Sun Hee Kim—we call her Sonia—around age 11 or 12, when I entered the National Institute for the Gifted in Arts in Seoul. NIGA is a government-funded school, affiliated with the Korea National University of the Arts [also known as K-Arts]. She was my first teacher there, and I was […]

What do Mariinsky Ballet’s Kimin Kim, Paris Opéra Ballet’s Sae Eun Park, Dutch National Ballet principal Young Gyu Choi, and American Ballet Theatre’s Joo Won Ahn, Sung Woo Han, and SunMi Park have in common? All are alumni of South Korea’s Korea National University of the Arts and/or the affiliated Korea National Institute for Gifted in Arts, collectively known as K-Arts. In fact, […]