Joomin became the first native Korean to perform at the Tony Awards. He describes the Radio City stage, a sea of people, a standing ovation, and thinking, what is life right now. What gets me is that he almost never went. He was thirty, spoke no English, and everyone told him it wasn't realistic.
He Almost Didn't Go. Then He Made the Tony Awards.
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