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Dating on Sunday
little 6-year-old fingers made it difficult for me to learn the
Pleasemakeyourselfknowntoreaders.
Hello. My name is Kim Seul-ki, a freshman in the Russian
instrument. My fingers hurt from the strings of the violin and
department. I was born in Korea but my family moved to
sometimes, standing for long-hours was very difficult for me.
Uzbekistan when I was 6 years old after suffering from
So I remember saying that I wanted to quit. Although, I was
international monetary fund (IMF) crisis. Even though I am
very cheeky back then, I still remember an instructor who
Korean, I lived in Uzbekistan from age six until last year. I
helped me not to quit. One of the instructors, who taught me
could have a dual citizenship, but my father wanted to let me
for 10 years, was an old Greek lady. She didn’t go back to her
gotoarmyinKorea.SoIamlivingasaKorean.Iwasableto
homecountrybecauseshewantedtoteachmeforsuchalong
come Hankuk University of Foreign Studies (HUFS) by being
period of time. I’ve recently heard that she has gone back to
selected as a foreigner due to my living in Uzbekistan for 14
Greece to spend the rest of her life there, only after I came to
years.
Korea. I keep in contact with her often and she comes to my
mind regularly because she taught me the violin when I was
young.
Why do you play the violin outside of the Apple
Another difficulty I had was that I was the only foreigner at
Lounge?
This place is underground but it makes sound extend to the
school when I first moved to Uzbekistan; therefore there was
outdoors. Whenever I play the violin here, the sound is good
some racism at school because my appearance was different
because it reverberates within the space. So I often come. Of
from that of the other students. This was evident because
course, when I practice some musical programs for the first
students would say little things like ‘why are your eyes so
time,Iusuallypracticeinmyhome.ButafterIfoundtheplace,
small?’ and they would treat me like an outcast. Whenever I
Icomeheretopracticemore.Itisexciting.OnceIstartplaying
felt depressed, I would play my violin. The violin was always
a musical program, I cannot stop and it takes more than 40
there and I started relying on it more and more. The violin
minutes.AndnowIampracticingfortheDaeDongJae(HUFS
was always there to support me whenever I had difficulties
Festival).Iwanttogetthroughapreliminarytest.
withcommunicationandculture.Playingtheviolinhelpedme
to forget my problems in life and the problems with racism
as well. From then, I started improving my violin skills and
Your violin skills are amazing. When did you first
was one of the first foreigners to participate in a national
startlearningtheinstrument?
I started learning the violin when I was 6 years old, moving
competition.Icamein2ndinthecompetitionandIthinkthat
fromSouthKoreatoUzbekistan.Icoincidentlycameacrossan
IwasabletofinishmyUzbekistanilifeoffsafely,allthanksto
orchestraontelevisionandIwassoamazedbytheviolinthatI
myviolin.
askedmyparentstohelpmelearntheinstrument.Fortunately,
theygladlyacceptedbyrequest.Thereafter,Istartedtoattend
a 7-year course music academy to learn violin after school
Ialwaysclosemyeyesplaying
activities. I’ve been practicing by myself even after coming to
andthishelpsmetoforget
South Korea. I had practiced with the traditional violin for a
long time but I changed it to an electric one last year. At first,
aboutmyworries,anxieties
my parents were extremely against that change, because they
andnervousness.
thought that the violin was more close to traditional one than
the electric. Therefore, I had to get a part-time job in order to
purchasemyownelectricviolin.Itwashardtoearn2million
Can you remember anything
Won, but there weren’t many electric violins left in Korea at
particularly fulfilling you have
that time, so when I first purchased my electric one, it was
donewiththeviolin?
certainlyworthwhile.
I have often volunteered at church
In addition, the violin that I purchased had both electric
by playing the violin and that is
soundsandtheclassicsoundswithintheinstrument,soIcould
definitely something fulfilling.
select whichever sound I wanted to play depending on the
They usually have a platform for
piece.
me to perform on and seeing the
audience smile makes me happy.
On the stage, I feel a very intense
Didyoucomeacrossanydifficultypracticingwhen
and encouraging power. I must be a
youwereyoung?
I started learning the violin when I was 6 years old, but my
stagetypeofperson.
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