In 2016, Hana received New Musician Award from the Journal of Music in South Korea and she is the winner of the Great Lakes Region of 2010 Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, the recipient of the Corbett Award and Italo Tajo Memorial Award of the Corbett Opera Competition at CCM, and Grand-Prix and Audience Award from The Seventh International Lied Competition of Japanischen Schubert – Gesellschaft abroad. She received degrees in Voice from Seoul National University (B.M) and University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music (M.M and D.M.A.) and she teaches at Seoul National University. In the summer of 2009 at Wolf Trap Opera she performed the roles of Mimi in La Bohème. The Washington Post wrote that, “As the emotional center of the opera, she glowed.”