Ivan Hewett meets Unsuk Chin, who last year won the Grawemeyer Award, the musical world’s richest prize for composers. Never before had a Korean composer made it so big in the West, and back home it was headline news. I suggest that after her long exile in Berlin, where she went in 1986 to study on a German government scholarship, she could now return to her roots and enjoy her celebrity status. The idea horrifies her.”