Minji Kim has emerged as one of the most promising young traditional performing artists in Korea. She specializes in the field of percussion and drumming traditions, including samulnori, as well as its related dance tradition, sŏljanggoch'um. Since childhood, Kim has been touring worldwide performing on the changgo. She studied the art of Korean drumming with National Human Treasure of Intangible Cultural Asset Chung Man Kim, and is a graduate of Ehwa Woman's University's School of Music. She has performed as a soloist with a number of traditional orchestras, such as the National Youth Korean Traditional Orchestra, and has also been a regular guest artist at the National Center for Korean Traditional Performing Arts. In 2007, she choreographed and directed the Tenth Annual Seoul World Youth Dance Festival. She is currently the 2009 Korean Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism's Traditional Artist-in-Residence for the greater New York area.

Ju-Yong Ha has been bringing the traditional and contemporary musical arts of Korea to the U.S. for more than a decade. He has worked closely with the Korean Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism as a cultural attaché to artistic communities abroad. He received his doctorate in composition and ethnomusicology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and has taught at City College, Baruch College and the University of Hartford. In the fall of 2009, he will be a visiting lecturer at Hunter College.