Yehjin Chun was born in South Korea in 1992 and began playing the cello at the age of five. From 2009 to 2016 she studied at the University of the Arts in Berlin with Konstantin Heidrich, then she continued her master's degree there with Jens Peter Maintz. Since April 2019 she has been doing her concert exam with Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt at the Liszt School of Music Weimar. 

In addition to her studies, Yehjin received further musical impulses from David Geringas, Heinrich Schiff, Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt and Christian Poltéra. She was also a scholarship holder of the International Music Academy in Liechtenstein and took part in the intensive weeks there. 

Yehjin has won numerous prizes at national and international competitions such as the “Strad Competition”, the “Segye Ilbo Competition”, the “Vancouver Kiwanis Music Festival Competition” and the “Summit Music Festival Concerto Competition” in New York. She won the 2nd prize at the “Asia Youth Competition” in Singapore. In 2018 she was in the final of the “Isang Yun Competition” and was awarded the “Seong-Yawng Park Special Prize”. 

She played in various chamber music ensembles and, for example, performed in November 2011 at Bellevue Palace with the Mainardi Cello Quartet in front of Federal President Christian Wulff. 

Yehjin plays a cello made by Giovanni Grancino in 1705.