S. Korean delegation arrives in Pyongyang for Yun Isang concert

SEOUL, Oct. 14 (Yonhap) -- A South Korean delegation of the Isang Yun Peace Foundation arrived in Pyongyang on Tuesday to attend a concert there in memory of the renowned composer, Pyongyang's official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported.

The KCNA said the South Korean group, headed by Director Shin Kye-ryun, arrived
at the Pyongyang airport to attend the 27th Yun I Sang Concert, but did not give
further details.
South Korean cellist Koh Bong-in is to perform Yun's "Concerto for Violon Cello
and Orchestra" with a North Korean orchestra in a series of concerts slated for
Oct. 15-17. It will be the first time for musicians from both Koreas to jointly
perform Yun's music in concert.
Yun (1917-1995), a native of South Korea's Tongyeong, was one of the most
renowned contemporary composers of Korea, although he failed to receive
recognition from his land of birth, which labeled him a communist.
Yun was at the peak of his celebrity as a composer in Europe when he was abducted
in 1967 by the South Korean secret service and taken from Berlin to Seoul. He was
tortured and charged with high treason for meeting with North Koreans in Berlin
and for visiting the North. He was sentenced to life in prison, but released in
1969 after some 200 international artists made worldwide appeals.
It was only in 2005 that his honor was restored as a result of a government-led
investigation into human rights abuses, which said the incident had been
exaggerated and recommended that the government apologize to the victims.