SooJung Shin received musical training at Seoul National University, the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, and the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore, USA. Her teachers included Chung Jin-Woo, Josef Dichler, Leon Fleisher, Wilhelm Kempff, and Maria Curzio Diamond. She is a laureate of numerous international music competitions, including the Dong-A National Music Competition (Korea), the Elena Rombro Stepanow Competition (Vienna), and the Deutsch Industrie Verband Scholarship Competition. She has also received the Korean Academy of Arts Award. In 2011, she was awarded the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, First Class.

Ms. Shin made her debut at 13, performing Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 20 with the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra. Since then, she has collaborated with leading orchestras worldwide, including the London Philharmonic Orchestra, Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra, Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra, KBS Symphony Orchestra, and NHK Symphony Orchestra. She has performed under distinguished conductors such as Lim Won-Shik, Leon Fleisher, Wolfgang Sawallisch, Sir John Pritchard, Takashi Asahina, Hiroyuki Iwaki, and Myung-Whun Chung.

She has served as a jury member for numerous prestigious international music competitions, including the ARD, Seoul, Tokyo, Köln, UNISA, Dublin, Hamamatsu, Sendai, Leeds, and Rubinstein International Piano Competitions.

At the age of 26, she became the youngest faculty member in the history of the College of Music at Seoul National University. She also taught at Seoul High School of Arts and Kyung Won University, where she served as Dean of the School of Music. In 2000, she returned to Seoul National University as a faculty member and was appointed Dean of the College of Music, becoming the first female dean in the college’s history. In 2023, she was elected President of the Academy of Arts of the Republic of Korea. She currently holds the title of Professor Emeritus at Seoul National University.