As budding performers, Juilliard students often travel to far-off places, but not many get to experience places like North Korea and Turkey. Recently, two students played concerts in these countries, and wrote about their trips for The Juilliard Journal.

JA-YOUNG THERESA KIM in North Korea
"The decisions of leaders do not have to reflect the views and desires of the people. South Koreans, North Koreans, Korean-Americans, and Korean people all over the world share the same unique values and traditions, and that is not something that a single line drawn at the 38th parallel on some map can ever change." More...

KARA UNAL in Turkey
The land mass that extends from Mount Ararat in the east to the site of ancient Troy on the Aegean Sea in the west and from the sun-drenched beaches of the Mediterranean in the south to the rain soaked forests of the Black Sea in the north, Turkey is the original land of stunning contrasts and baffling contradictions. More...