Korean Love

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.

사랑하는 사람에게 받은 상처 때문에 새로운 관계 맺기를 두려워하는 사람, 직장 상사의 비난과 지적질에 자신감을 잃은 사람, 부모님의 끊임없는 부부싸움에 영향을 받아 타인을 믿지 못하는 사람, 친구의 거절로 인해 인간관계가 조심스러워진 사람, 주변 사람들에게 무시받은 상처 때문에 공격적으로 타인을 대하는 사람…. 우리는 누구나 상처를 받고 상처를 입히며 살아간다. 어린 시절부터 지속된 트라우마부터 인간관계에서 받게 되는 크고 작은 상처까지, 그 종류와 범위는 헤아릴 수 없을 정도다. 하지만 아픔과 상처를 대하는 방식이 모두가 동일한 것은 아니다. 어떤 사람은 그때그때 상처를 잘 정리하고 자신을 들여다보는 계기로 삼아 '성숙한 나'로 나아가지만, 어떤 사람은 상처를 끌어안고 감정적으로 대응하다가 더 큰 상처를 만들어내기도 한다.

Min Jade has been a misfit all her life. Programmed to be the best by her Tiger Mom, Jessica Jade, she is a standout in her career as the only Black tenured professors of Physics at the prestigious University of Michigan. With an IQ off the charts, Jessica, very early on recognized her daughter’s genius came with the duality of mental frailty. A force shield against the sometimes cruel reality of Black geniuses, when the portending insomnia that warned of doom returns, she knew a change was needed. Min Jade’s professor and her mother urges her to take a sabbatical to The University of ...

I'm only dating him for the melons. Running two businesses doesn’t leave much room for dating. Good thing, too. Men treat me like an exotic toy. I guess they’ve never met a Korean girl who speaks with a Russian accent. Few dig deep enough to realize I’m from Uzbekistan, not that it helps in the exotic department. When Damian Hughes, the owner of the hotel where I’m organizing a wedding, asks me out, I ignore my attraction to him and say no. Apparently, no means he should hire me to organize a Christmas party at his hotel. The party he wants to micromanage, although I suspect he goes...

Noriko is a gorgeous, shy Japanese flight attendant: waifishly thin, with long, black hair, and a perfectly cute face. She badly needs a man to love her. She'd looked for boyfriends in her English conversation club and her yoga class, but she hasn't been able to find a man to give her the love she craves. Meanwhile, despite her long work hours as a flight attendant, she's having trouble paying off her father's Yakuza debts. Before boarding a flight from Tokyo to San Francisco, Noriko receives a mysterious business card from a trenchcoated stranger. The business card has a phone number in ...

Being with Mino has never been easy for me. It has all been a journey in this foreign country, and the last think I needed before I go back to the US was a broken heart. I can’t believe that the person I had hoped to become my forever just broke it off with me too quickly. I still don’t get why he did it, but I know that there’s a reason behind it - if not, reasons. What’s the big secret? Will he come back? Will he take me back? What’s in store for the both of us?