Reporting from Seoul — Cao Thi Nguyen and her baby were marooned in a strange land without family or options. The young woman, who moved here from Vietnam two years ago to marry a South Korean man, ...
Trinh met her murderer through a matchmaker. She was 29 years old and her future husband was in his 50s, court documents show. She only spoke Vietnamese, he spoke Korean. Despite the communication ...
Yoon, a Korean artist in her mid-30s, is on the cusp of completing her goal to get married 50 times in 50 states. , the project is referred to as "a multimedia performance designed to bring attention ...
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korean defectors who became brides for rural Chinese men, they faced another excruciating choice when they suffered abuse: to flee to South Korea and leave their ...
Being covert with kimchi is a problem. The fermented vegetable dish, a staple of Korean kitchens, makes its presence known. So for the Korean women in Ji-Yeon Yuh’s Beyond the Shadow of Camptown: ...
With a flick of the remote one summer day in 2007, Son Sang Hyok’s life changed forever. Son turned on the television in his Seoul apartment and saw a young Uzbek woman urging Korean men to travel to ...
She said she came to South Korea in 2002. Chinese looking for North Korean brides are often old and less well-off; some are disabled bachelors or widowers who work as farmers or manual laborers in ...
Weddings, weddings, weddings! With so many celebrities tying the knot these days, you might be wondering what wedding customs are like in Korea. We’ve noticed some questions in the comments section – ...
Seoul, South Korea, April 1962: One of the 46 students of the American Red Cross Brides’ School receives her diploma during graduation ceremonies in the auditorium of the Seoul Area Command Service ...