[1] Her parents (her father was an urban planner; her mother, a piano teacher) had immigrated to Canada from Korea.
[1][4] At age nine, Kang accepted a scholarship to the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, where she studied with Jascha Brodsky.
[10] In 1994, she joined the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra for a six-day tour of northern Canada.
[1][15] In 1999, Kang joined the Kennedy Center Opera Orchestra as principal second violin.
[16][17] In 2001, Kang married cellist Thomas Kraines, whom she had met as a student at Curtis.