Top news: One head must roll in Seoul

Top news: One head must roll in Seoul

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norman lebrecht

December 08, 2014

The top headline all day in South Korea has been the struggle at the head of the Seoul Philharmonic between chief executive Park Hyun-jung, who has been accused of bullying and sexual harrassment, and the artistic leadership of Myung Whun Chung, the music director.

Park, a member of the country’s political-industrial elite, has accused the conductor of staging a coup against her. Her supporters in the Korean media describe it as ‘a difference in perspective between a liberal, inefficient art organization and a corporate CEO used to efficiency and productivity.’

Clearly, one of them will have to go. And from what we hear, it’s touch and go which of them will fall.

chung vspark seoul

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