Korean Family

For years, I’ve been "Daddy’s Little Princess". Smiling for the cameras, spouting the same three lines about how proud I am to be the Governor’s daughter every time a microphone gets put in my face. I thought I was already doing my part to make sure he stayed a big fish in our little pond, but now that Dad has his sights set on higher office, he’s practically trapped me in a fish bowl. Living under his controlling gaze, I can’t help searching for loopholes; sneaking out and finding little pockets of the world where I can just be me. I do my best to keep my head down and fall in ...

1999: At the end of the millennium, the Kim family is struggling to move on after their mother, Sunny, vanished a year ago. Sixty-one-year-old John Kim feels more isolated from his grown children than ever before. One evening, their fragile lives are further upended when John finds the body of an unhoused stranger in the backyard with a letter to Sunny, leaving the family with more questions than ever. 1977: Newly married, Sunny is pregnant and has just moved to Los Angeles from Korea with her hardworking and often-absent husband.

Heungbo and Nolbo are not only brothers, but also friends—until their father passes away. Overcome by greed, Nolbo turns Heungbo away and refuses to help him when Heungbo loses his crops. Can Heungbo forgive Nolbo? Will they learn to be a family again?

In South Korea, a 105-year-old woman receives a letter. Ten days later, she has been thrust into the afterlife, fighting to head off a curse that will otherwise devastate generations to come. Hak Jeonga has always shouldered the burden of upholding the family name. When she sent her daughter-in-law to America to cover up an illegitimate birth, she was simply doing what was needed to preserve the reputations of her loved ones. How could she have known that decades later, this decision would return to haunt her?

When Eugene Kim assembles his three estranged daughters at his deathbed, he means to put them to the test. Vicious and pathetic in equal measure, he wants to test who will abject themselves for his favor—and, more importantly, his fortune. Each isolated and desperate to escape their circumstances, the sisters wrestle with the legacy of their abusive father as they attempt to imagine a future with others—colleagues, lovers, friends, family—as rage and shame courses through their blood.

Meet Noh Inji: thirty years old, five wedding rings and counting, and she’s never once been in love. When Inji takes a job at Wedding & Life, the popular matchmaking service, she never imagines her role will be with NM, their secretive marriage division that rents out “field spouses” for a fixed period to their elite clientele. Just like a real marriage, Inji’s assignments involve a wedding, some sex, and a spot of housework. It’s all tailored exactly to the client’s desires—no legal battles, no fights, no emotional baggage.

Kevin is trying to remember what he's supposed to do if there's an intruder in the house: stay calm, don't look scared, call 911. At the same time, he's doing his best to figure out how the heck some guy with a bow and arrow got into the room. The archer's explanation - "I lost my balance, fell off the tiger, and landed here" - just adds to Kevin's bewilderment.

진구 VS 고진, 두 추리 천재의 격돌! 정교한 트릭과 전문성을 바탕으로 한 리얼리티! '돈만 있다면 굳이 행복해질 필요 있어?' 교통사고로 아내를 잃은 교준은 진구에게 장인어른의 재산을 처형들이 상속받지 못하게 해달라고 의뢰한다. 살날이 얼마 남지 않은 장인어른의 유산에 눈이 먼 처형들이 아내를 살해했다고 믿는 교준. 조사 차 여자 친구 해미와 함께 교준이 살고 있는 부산으로 간 진구는, 처형들 측 변호사로 온 고진과 마주한다.

Don and Mindy Wallace have always been Francophiles, so when they had the opportunity to buy a home on a small French island off the coast of Brittany, they jumped—sight unseen—into a crumbling mess that challenged their finances and their family. But when the Wallaces arrived on the island, they found a building in ruin, and it wasn't long before their lives resembled it. Plagued by emergency repairs, a stock market crash, and very exasperated French neighbors, Don and Mindy could have accepted their fate. Instead, they embraced it.

When 69-year-old So-nyo is separated from her husband among the crowds of the Seoul subway station, her family begins a desperate search to find her. Yet as long-held secrets and private sorrows begin to reveal themselves, they are forced to wonder: how well did they actually know the woman they called Mother?

For rollercoaster designer Theo, living on the edge is just part of the job. He’s used to wandering the world perfecting thrills, his heart immune to commitment. But then a commission in repressive North Korea exposes him to emotions he’s never dared to feel. Tour guide Min has a soul that wants to soar, but she knows it’s safer to build walls around her heart and mind. Skilled in showcasing the mesmerising beauty of capital city Pyongyang without revealing its darker secrets, she introduces Theo to a country he will never forget....

When a widowed, aging mother allows Green, her thirty-something daughter, to move into her apartment, all she wants for her is a stable and quiet existence like her own. Ideally, a steady income and a good husband. But when Green turns up with her long-term girlfriend in tow, her mother is enraged and unwilling to welcome their relationship into her home. Her daughter's definition of family is not one she can accept. Green's involvement in a campus protest against unfair dismissals of gay colleagues throws her into deeper shambles.

Adventures of a lifetime… Great courage is needed in the face of danger and during the heat of battle. Not all of these characters willingly chose to go down heroic paths, but stepped up when needed. All will fight for what they believe in until the end, no matter the cost. This anthology focuses on East Asian warriors. Featuring stories by Charles Kyffhausen, Danielle Davis, Barend Nieuwstraten III, David W. Landrum, and Glenn Bresciani.

Working with Seoul’s premiere matchmaker, Jisu’s traditional South Korean parents are determined to ensure her success in life and love by matching her with the right boyfriend. After one too many slip-ups at school, Jisu finds herself shipped off to San Francisco to focus on her academics and approved dates, leaving her little space to figure out her own dreams. As her newly realized passion for photography lights her on fire, Jisu wonders...does she even want to find "The One"?

Mina is the perfect daughter. Bound for Harvard, president of the honor society, straight A student, all while she works at her family's dry cleaners and helps care for her hearing-impaired younger sister. On the outside, Mina does everything right. On the inside, Mina knows the truth. Her life is a lie.

우리 집에 대학생 엄마가 살고 있다 "그대, 엄마의 이름을 불러본 적이 있는가!" 자발적 하숙생이 되어버린 엄마, 강순희와 느닷없이 하숙집 아줌마가 된 딸, 백연화의 좌충우돌 휴먼 드라마. 만나기만 하면 으르렁대는 모녀. 서로가 서로를 진심으로 이해할 날은 찾아올까? WELCOME TO 연화하숙. 연화였지만 언젠가 순희 씨가 될 세상의 모든 딸들과 이제는 순희 씨가 되어버린 모든 엄마들에게, 이곳 연화하숙으로 초대합니다.

"당신 덕분에 눈부시게 행복했습니다." 인생의 선배이자, 든든한 내 편이었던 엄마에게 보내는 고백. 세상에 내 편 하나 있으면 살아지는 게 인생이라는 말이 있다. 이 책에는 세상에서 단 한 사람, 든든한 내 편이던 엄마에 대한 이야기가 담겨있다. 때로 지겹게 싸웠고, 서로 상처를 주기도 했지만 엄마는 세상살이에 지칠 때면 항상 돌아갈 수 있는 곳이었다. 그러던 어느날, 저자는 인생에서 상실을 경험한다. 라디오 작가인 딸의 방송을 듣고 매일 같이 문자로 안부를 묻던 엄마를 떠나보낸 것이다. 아파서 마주하지 못했고, 그 공백에 익숙해지지도 못했던 시간이 7년, 저자는 세상에서 가장 따뜻한 존재였던 엄마와의 기억을 꺼낸다. 그리고 자신과 이 책을 읽는 당신에게 말한다. '용기를 내 다시 꼭 행복해지자고.' 때로 삶이 쓸쓸하게 느껴질 때, 혼자라고 느껴지는 순간, 사랑하는 사람이 그리운 당신에게 이 책이 다정한 위로와 희망으로 다가갈 수 있기를 바란다.

Sohla Kim has everything you could want in life. Born rich and smart, to a family that has status, money, and power, while dominating the investment world. A pre-set betrothment to her childhood best friend, Jyeon Park. The handsome, equally wealthy, and smart, future heir of OLO, their joint family company. An unbreakable bond between two families, a future that looks bright and rosy. Only the perfect picture is only that, and ten years on, alone, holding her head above water, in a loveless marriage laced with tragedy, her entire world is turned upside down. Everything she thought she had ...

Friday August 15th, 1997. The night the girls arrived. Two tiny Korean babies are delivered to Baltimore to two families who have no more in common than this.

어디서나 당당하고 환영받는 아이로 키우는 25가지 자녀 교육 원칙