Photo: Supplied by Dami Jung
It was 1994 and at 15 years old Dami Jung's family made the decision to immigrate from South Korea to New Zealand - in pursuit of better career options for their pianist daughter.
A budding prodigy in her home country, Dami and her younger sister attended an an arts school in Seoul and studied classical music composition.
But not long after arriving in New Zealand, Dami realised the pressure and sacrifice of her family, developed an eating disorder and eventually abandoned the piano and New Zealand.
30 years later she has started work on a book The Greenstone - about a Korean girl who lived in New Zealand in the 1990s.
She tells Kathryn Ryan how she's started to make peace with music, and with New Zealand.
