Korean-american Stories

Serena Yoon never meant to become Korea's newest obsession. Born and raised in Seattle, the 24-year-old Korean-American moves to Seoul after graduating with a Computer Science degree, planning to spend a few quiet months with her grandmother before deciding what to do with her life. Instead, she accidentally shakes the entire esports world. Under the anonymous in-game name Astra, Serena climbs the Korean ranked ladder with terrifying speed. Her mechanics feel impossible. Her decision-making almost inhuman. Nobody knows who she is, yet clips of her dismantling professional players spread across Korean forums overnight. A ghost account. A prodigy. A rumor. Then T1 notices her. What begins as a private tryout quickly turns into national controversy when Serena becomes the first woman to join T1's League of Legends main roster. Some people call her the future of esports. Others insist she doesn't belong there at all. As Astra becomes one of the most watched names in Korea, Serena is still just trying to figure out where she belongs. In America. In Korea. In esports. In her own skin. And then there's Lee Sang-hyeok. Who never tries to figure her out at all. Who just... stays. Crossfire: T1 Astra is a slow-burn esports romance about identity, fame, loneliness, and what happens when the world turns someone into a legend before they've even figured out who they are.

Shauna Gibbs arrived at Westmont Academy carrying everything she could not put down - the memory of her father's voice, the silence he left behind, and a promise she intends to keep no matter what it costs her. She did not come looking for anyone. She came to build something her father would recognize, something worth the grief. Evan Park arrived carrying his own wreckage - the kind that hides behind a clean jawline and a football jersey and a grandmother's house so large it echoes when you walk through it alone. He is disciplined and guarded and quietly devastated, and he is not looking for anything either. They find each other the way people find each other when they are not paying attention to where they are walking. What builds between them is not fast. It is not simple. It is chosen, deliberately and quietly, against the weight of other people's expectations, against a friendship that is not what it appears to be, against a world that has opinions about who belongs with whom and says so in the ways that worlds always say things - in looks and rooms and doors that open for some people and close for others. And then everything that was quietly building between them cracks open. All at once. In the worst possible way. Where the Light Stopped is a slow-burning interracial romance and psychological suspense novel about grief and its aftermath, about what love costs when the world around it is actively trying to undo it, and about what remains of two people when everything they built has been stripped to the foundation. This story does not rush. It does not look away. And it does not promise you easy. ©️ Relle H.// R. H.

She had built a life around independence, discipline, and carefully guarded silence. Her mother's maiden name had become more than a name; it had become a boundary between the woman she was and the history she refused to inherit. He had grown up surrounded by tradition, expectation, and a Korean-American family whose love had always carried weight. Their lives had once been connected by friendship, until growing older had complicated everything they thought they understood about trust, loyalty, and betrayal. Years later, they had found each other again. Not as the teenagers they remembered. Not as strangers. Somewhere between old memories and new beginnings, friendship had returned first. Slowly, patiently, and without either of them realizing how deeply it would change them. She had learned that strength did not mean carrying everything alone. He had learned that loyalty did not always mean following the path placed before him. Together, they had discovered that love could grow quietly, without permission, while the worlds around them demanded certainty. But their lives had carried more history than either expected. Family expectations, cultural traditions, complicated legacies, and buried emotions had followed them into adulthood, forcing them to question what belonged to the past and what belonged to them. Their connection had become a collision between tenderness and pressure, independence and vulnerability, friendship and desire. It had been a story of second chances, complicated families, hospital corridors, quiet mornings, late-night conversations, Korean and English spoken across family tables, and two people learning that love was not simply something they felt. It was something they chose. Again and again. ©️ _RelleLebby_// R. H.

In the golden haze of Los Angeles sunsets and the quiet ache of Seoul rainy nights, five dreamers find themselves living across the hallway from each other - and slowly becoming each other's safe place. Kim Jennie, also known as Kim Ah Reum, is a Korean-American visual arts student at Westwood Arts University (WAU). Behind her calm personality and camera lens hides a girl who secretly writes emotional songs she's too afraid to share with the world. She captures memories through photographs, film projects, and quiet observations - noticing the emotions people try hardest to hide. Across from her apartment lives x-treme, a pre-debut idol group under Hit Entertainment. There's Park Jae Won, the cold and guarded main vocalist whose lonely heart hides behind perfection and silence. Kang Min Woo, the introverted second lead vocalist and visual of x-treme who is terrified of failure. Lee Ji Hoon, the chaotic rapper who jokes through his loneliness. And Choi Sung Min, the youngest member fighting to prove he's more than "just the maknae." As late-night convenience store talks, rooftop conversations, practice room struggles, studio sessions, and campus festival nights slowly intertwine their lives, Jennie becomes more than just the girl next door. She becomes inspiration. Comfort. Home. But between trainee evaluations, hidden fears, unfinished songs, and dreams too important to lose, emotions begin to blur quietly beneath friendship. And for Jae Won especially- falling for the girl next door might become the most dangerous thing of all.

-a heartbreak and the heartbroken, stories from when we were together. {completed}

Spencer Fonseca and their two brothers were living a normal life in Massachusetts, when they suddenly get a letter saying that they've inherited their great-uncle Albert's mansion, and wealth. They take a leap of faith, and move into the mansion, where they have to learn to navigate the mansion, and deal with greedy parents that want to re-enter their lives. As told through short chapters.

EunHae is a nine year old who bids a tearful farewell to Appa as leaves for America in search of better life and promises to come back for her in two years. Ten years later, EunHae still lives her life clinging to the memories of Appa and life denied, shutting out all those who love her. When she goes in search of answers, she uncovers far more than she ever expected.

"You don't need a relationship right now Silus, you need a purpose. I can't be the one giving you that." · · ─────── ·𖥸· ─────── · · It's been 10 years. 10 years since Alethia left it all. 10 years since Silus felt the closest he's ever been to heartbreak. It's been 10 years, and finally Alethia's back. And she's different somehow, more wild and free, as if she's shed the burdens she'd had when they were together. Success, fortune, fame, she's got it all. There isn't anything else he can offer, nor is he in the position to. After all, he's taken, and she's not interested. At least, she thinks she isn't. · · ─────── ·𖥸· ─────── · · "You never knew me, you knew the girl you wanted to know, someone who you needed at the time. But that isn't me Silus, it will never be, and you need to understand that."

Chef Hana Kim doesn't compromise. Not her food, not her kitchen, not the back-alley San Francisco restaurant she built from nothing after a mountain took her balance and never gave it back. So when the most famous voice on the planet collapses at her counter past closing - starving, shaking, unable to keep anything down before his stadium tour - she pours him a cup of burdock tea and tells him she's closed. He offers a hundred thousand dollars for a week of midnight dinners. She offers three rules. Rule three: don't leave food on the plate. What neither of them counts on is that the contract becomes the only honest thing in two lives built entirely on performance - that the rhythm of her knife on the cutting board is the only thing that quiets his panic - or that the snow she's spent fifteen years refusing to look at is exactly where this has to end. A slow-burn contract romance about food as memory, snow as survival, and the difference between being looked at and being fed. She lost the snow. She found the fire.

"I put my family before everything in my life. If you can't understand that, then you can't be with me." ~~~~~~~~~~~~ Ji Ah Song - or as she's known by her classmates, Song Ji Ah - is the third eldest child in her family. She cares for her two younger brothers, often hangs out with one of her older brothers, and protects all of her siblings from their mother. Life for her is a balancing act: she lives in a dorm on her college campus, holds down a job at a diner, majors in Business, participates in many clubs, gets her brothers to school on time, and learns how to eventually run their family business. She's not looking for anything more to add onto her plate, but when a new friend introduces their older brother to Ji Ah, her mundane - if not chaotic - life becomes a bit more interesting. The beautiful cover was created by @Juverine ❤❤ {Copyright © miraculously_gifted, All Rights Reserved, 2019 - )

"Why do you hate me so much?" Gongju debuts in a five member group named ATY, but one of the most important rules; NO DATING; becomes hard to follow. With all the pressure to be the perfect figure created by the public, will Gongju fight off the discriminating virus or will she crush under all the unbearing pressure?

(Closed For Entries-You can still read it though,I promise you will love the story!) 30 Girls- From different walks of life cross paths,to achieve a common dream. Following their passion has got them till here,who will grasp it? A Global Girl Group Debut! The women who will take tomorrow by storm! The I-Land girls are here!

COMING SOON - At just nineteen years old, Kerra Jung is the successful author of the hit novel series 'Moonlight,' a riveting romance detailing the journey of two unlikely lovers in a mystical world of monsters and magic. However, despite the romantic success of her characters, Kerra has fallen greatly short in the love department herself. But after her best friend snatches a job with a rising street artist and part-time model, Kerra begins to question if her anti-romantic life is what she truly desires in this short story narrating how a fortune cookie changed the course of a young girl's life.

Sixteen-year-old Jeremy (Jer) Park has always had dreams of being a singer, rapper, and dancer. His dreams finally come true when he passes all of the auditions to be in A-List Records' newest singing, rapping, and dancing seven-member boy band, AKA. However, Jer soon realizes that being in the Korean-American boy band is a lot harder than he thought it would for he has to deal with a constantly mean and critical fellow band member; has to juggle high school courses, band practice, and his newfound fame; and--worst of all--has to juggle the shocking discovery that his band label may have been involved with a serious and gruesome crime. (Note: AKA is on a brief hiatus. A new chapter was published on 4-13-20. I will be back with more chapters in a few weeks.)

[Coming Soon] When Lilla Wang gets email from Unkown person well she think it's unknown, she finds out that her long time crush Finn Jones as they begin a life time friend ship over online. cover by @soundthealarm © taintedhugs, all rights reserved

This book may contain korean words since the main character(s) are korean American. **** He walked down the hallways with his head down trying to survive a day at school, at home he blocked out the sounds of shattering glass and shouting by blasting his music on full volume while he laid in the dark. Long sleeved shirts covered what he did to himself every night before he fell asleep. He kept his feelings in a jar and covered them with a fake smile. His smile was award winning being able to cover up all his weaknesses, but one thing that gave him away was his eyes, his eyes always told everything if people stop for a while and noticed. He was secretly falling apart and either were to busy not caring to notice, or they where oblivious to the obvious He wasn't close to anyone, he didn't have any friends and he found it better off that way. Besides, what person would want to befriend someone who would even befriend themselves? He was any book waiting to be filled with words, waiting for someone to tell his story, and the broken boy who was glue keeping his family together was the one and only Ace Evergreen.

Charlie Wright has suffered the loss of her father after a long battle with cancer and sets out to Seoul, South Korea in the hopes that she might fulfill his dying wish- that she deliver a mysterious letter to a woman she's never met before. Fate changes things up fast for her however, when she runs into Jake Chen, someone she knew in high school and things only get more insane from there.

The thing about love is that you can never really see it coming. It's a real silent thing, slowly making its way into your life. Just like air, it's something that you can't see, yet at the same time come to depend on. It's the tingles underneath your skin, the stars in his eyes. The scent that lingers on the collar of his shirt. It's that pounding and shaking your heart gives - the kind that ripples throughout your whole being. Its feel so damn good. The thing about love is that it ends in heartbreak. That trembling of your hands that you can't seem to stop. The tears you can very vaguely feel sliding down your cheeks. It's that anger you feel at the sight of his eyes - those eyes you can't help but feel drawn to. That gorgeous shade of green. It's that aching and burning sensation that stabs your chest - the kind that leaves you numb in both head and heart. It hurts so fucking bad. You want the know the thing about love? I should have never fallen into it.