Korean Girl

Hope is not your typical teenage girl. After a tumultuous childhood, she is once again in a new town and a new school which her mother has dragged her to. As is often the case, she is one of the only Asian kids in an all-white school and is still dealing with family issues. Hope is struggling to adjust to her new environment as a freshman in high school, where she meets a school counselor who helps her wade through the entire school year as well as pushes her to explore her past.

A daughter of Korean immigrants, Hyeseung Song spends her earliest years in the cane fields of Texas where her loyalties are divided between a restless father in search of Big Money, and a beautiful yet domineering mother whose resentments about her own life compromises her relationship with her daughter. With her parents at constant odds, Song learns more words in Korean for hatred than for love. When the family’s fake Gucci business lands them in bankruptcy, Song moves to a new elementary school. On her first day, a girl asks the teacher: “Can she speak English?”

Deadly storms have ravaged Mina’s homeland for generations. Floods sweep away entire villages, while bloody wars are waged over the few remaining resources. Her people believe the Sea God, once their protector, now curses them with death and despair. In an attempt to appease him, each year a beautiful maiden is thrown into the sea to serve as the Sea God’s bride, in the hopes that one day the “true bride” will be chosen and end the suffering.

In In Order to Live, Yeonmi Park shines a light not just into the darkest corners of life in North Korea, describing the deprivation and deception she endured and which millions of North Korean people continue to endure to this day, but also onto her own most painful and difficult memories. She tells with bravery and dignity for the first time the story of how she and her mother were betrayed and sold into sexual slavery in China and forced to suffer terrible psychological and physical hardship before they finally made their way to Seoul, South Korea - and to freedom.

On the outside, Yumi Chung suffers from #shygirlproblems, a perm-gone-wrong, and kids calling her "Yu-MEAT" because she smells like her family's Korean barbecue restaurant. On the inside, Yumi is ready for her Netflix stand-up special. Her notebook is filled with mortifying memories that she's reworked into comedy gold. All she needs is a stage and courage.

After defecting from North Korea, Yeonmi Park found liberty and freedom in America. But she also found a chilling crackdown on self-expression and thought that reminded her of the brutal regime she risked her life to escape. When she spoke out about the mass political indoctrination she saw around her in the United States, Park faced censorship and even death threats.

A Girl from Busan is an epic generational tale of resilience, where unwavering faith and the unbreakable bond of a mother’s love transcend devastating personal trials in a foreign culture. Amidst the tumult of the Korean War, young Okhui wandered the streets of Busan, seeking solace in the flickering shadows of the Munhwa theater. There, surrounded by the glamourous billboards of Hollywood cinema, she dreamt of gliding across the silver screen like Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire. Holding these dreams close to her heart, she ventured to America as a young bride, bearing the burden of a ...

Min is a head-turning Korean beauty, Asian perfection: long legs, flat stomach, and stunningly beautiful face framed by her long black hair. She works in a massage parlor in San Francisco to get back at her ex-boyfriend in Korea, but also to try to meet an American man who truly loves her. At first, Min is shy about performing special services, but Ted, a handsome alpha lawyer, takes Min for an hour of erotic passion. Can their passion last a lifetime?

An excellent student from a poor, traditional family in Seoul, the narrator has absorbed the same message her whole life: Only a boy can provide the family with dignity and wealth. Not her. Not her three sisters. Receiving approval only for uncomplaining sacrifice, she has resolved to take on her family’s troubles. She is a good girl. And she knows what good girls must do.

As a child growing up in North Korea, Hyeonseo Lee was one of millions trapped by a secretive and brutal communist regime. Her home on the border with China gave her some exposure to the world beyond the confines of the Hermit Kingdom and, as the famine of the 1990s struck, she began to wonder, question and realise that she had been brainwashed her entire life. Given the repression, poverty and starvation she witnessed surely her country could not be, as she had been told, 'the best on the planet'?

Yeonmi Park was not dreaming of freedom when she escaped from North Korea. She didn't even know what it meant to be free. All she knew was that she was running for her life, that if she and her family stayed behind they would die - from starvation, or disease, or even execution.

An extraordinary insight into life under one of the world's most ruthless and secretive dictatorships - and the story of one woman's terrifying struggle to avoid capture/repatriation and guide her family to freedom. As a child growing up in North Korea, Hyeonseo Lee was one of millions trapped by a secretive and brutal communist regime. Her home on the border with China gave her some exposure to the world beyond the confines of the Hermit Kingdom....

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 ...

Coming to South Korea, the last thing I expected was to meet a guy – let alone one like Mino. A rising star in the K-drama scene, he can’t seem to get enough of me, and sneaking out on a secret date together has only made my desire for him stronger. But something is happening – something that he won’t tell me about. Something that might put me in serious danger. But I don’t know what it is – or what kind of danger I might land in if I stay with him...

What do you do when your new stepmother is a lying psychopath, your best friend is out of the country, and the father who once loved you more than life itself kicks you out of the house at the beginning of Thanksgiving break? Well, you probably cry for a few hours and then crash at the first place that offers you a sofa. And if you’re me, that place happens to be a house of seven boys. Don’t get me wrong, I’m really glad I don’t have to sleep in my car until Alya gets back from her cruise. But staying with half a dozen strangers and some guy I once had a math class with was not how ...

This book shows the Girls I had Crushes On from my Childhood till Middle age in Chronological Order. It is an extension from Chapter 24 of UnBrokable* III.

드디어 헌터 캠프가 시작되었다. 이번 캠프에서 강지의 목표는 바로 1등! 1등에게 주어지는 보상 배지를 모조리 차지하면 강지도 중수 승급 심사에 도전할 수 있기 때문이다. 그런데 강지는 캠프가 시작하자마자 고민에 빠진다. 서로 다른 무기를 가진 헌터들과 한 조를 이루면 천하무적일 줄 알았는데, 강지네 D조는 도무지 마음이 안 맞기 때문이다.

Asian massages can turn very intimate. Hot Korean Girl's First Time Min is a head-turning Korean beauty, Asian perfection: long legs, flat stomach, and stunningly beautiful face framed by her long black hair. She works in a massage parlor in San Francisco to get back at her ex-boyfriend in Korea, but also to try to meet an American man who truly loves her. At first, Min is shy about performing special services, but Ted, a handsome alpha lawyer, takes Min for an hour of passion. Sexy Thai Girl and Virgin Nerd Jamie is an 18-year-old virgin who needs a first experience with a woman as he ...

"The Little Match Girl" is a short story by Danish author Hans Christian Andersen. It was first published in 1845. We use the public domain English text from A Christmas Greeting: A Series of Stories by H. C. Andersen in Project Gutenberg.

Twice: The Story of K-Pop’s Greatest Girl Group tells the amazing story behind one of the most loved groups of our time. Covering their triumphs and setbacks, the making of everyone’s favourite tracks - including ‘Like Ooh-Aah’, ‘Cheer Up’ and ‘Likey’ - and their unique sense of style, this in-depth, unofficial guide is perfect for any Twice fan.