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world-famous violinist has made controversial comments about Koreans.

Korean musicians are taking collective action, saying that racism is an old problem in the music world.



Correspondent Kim Jong-won of New York.



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Juilliard School of Music held an online special class last month by inviting Zuckerman, a violin virtuoso.




But Zuckerman said this while coaching his Japanese-American sisters.



[Lori Niles/violinist/music reporter (at the time) attending class): Zuckerman said, 'When you want to know how to play the violin, you have to sing. But I know that Koreans don't sing.' And they said something really strange.] When the



sisters revealed that we are not Korean, but their mother is Japanese, Zuckerman raised the level of remarks, saying that even Japanese don't sing. I did.



[Lori Niles/violinist/music reporter (at the time, attending class): Zuckerman said, 'Koreans don't sing. I don’t have the ability to sing in Korean DNA.” It was a shocking remark.]



At the time, the violinist and music journalist Niles, who observed the class, published this article and even brought up Zuckerman's past remarks.



Zuckerman made similar remarks two years ago while teaching a Chinese violinist.



[Zuckerman/Chinese violinist map video (2 years ago): English is very different from Chinese. 'Ahingtanghanghing' (a sound that mimics Chinese ridiculously), this (Chinese) is not a violin sound.]



On the other hand, while teaching Korean musicians, he demeaned violinist Young-Ju Jang.



[Zuckerman/Korean violinist map video (2016): Are you Sarah Jang (Jang Young-joo)? (shake your body) Don't do it. If I see anyone here playing like this, I'm going to do this. (Kicking behavior)]



Korean musicians took action to publicize discrimination against Asians, which is deeply rooted in the music world.



[Lee Yun-ah / Arizona State University vocal music professor: (in Korea, where many musicians have been produced) Such insults are quite a big mistake, and you will have to pay for what you did wrong to set an example... ]



[Safron Chung/Opera Coach: (About this incident) One of the reasons I am talking so hard is because it happened to me as well. What if black boys were playing and they sounded similar? Then there's an uproar.] When the



problem arose, Zuckerman was belatedly issued a statement of apology.



Juilliard has announced that it will not upload the controversial video of the lecture to the Internet.



However, some critics say that Julliard's measures are rather protecting Zuckerman.



(Video coverage: Lee Sang-wook, video editing: Won Yang, video source: New World Symphony Orchestra National Arts Center YouTube channel)