Koreanamerican Stories

Malaina Chastain has her life perfectly planned. Pre-vet track, 4.0 GPA, complete STEM requirements. And absolutely, positively, no distractions-especially not football players. But when she's assigned to tutor running back Choi Seo Joon in organic chemistry, her carefully controlled world starts to unravel. He's patient where others are pushy. Thoughtful where others are thoughtless. And he looks at her like she's more than just the perfect student everyone expects her to be. There's just one problem: she's supposed to be getting back together with her ex, Cooper - the safe choice, the expected choice, the one her family and friends have already planned her future around. Between debutante ball practices with the wrong guy, stolen moments with the right one, and a viral video that exposes feelings she's been trying to deny, Malaina has to decide: keep being perfect, or start being happy. Because sometimes the biggest risk isn't falling for the wrong person. It's falling for the right one. ✨ A clean slow-burn college romance about finding yourself, defying expectations, and discovering that home isn't a place-it's a person. ✨ Updates on Friday (and more often when I get free time)! Enjoy the Spotify playlist. Find it by searching for the playlist name: Fourth Down Chemistry Throwback Playlist. 🏈 College Football Romance | AMBW | Forced Proximity | Forbidden Romance | Found Family Trigger Warnings: minor character with terminal illness, mention of death

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 producer 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.

Zahara Ferreira is a Black Dominican American swimmer with Olympic dreams and a boyfriend who treats love like a leash. When the Park twins-Jae-ho and Min-ho-arrive in Charlotte from Seoul, they bring with them a scandal they can't outrun and a rivalry that predates their birth. Jae is controlled, observant, dangerously patient. Min is chaos wrapped in charisma, desperate to matter. Zay doesn't want to be seen by either of them. But Charlotte is a city that watches, and some connections refuse to stay hidden. A drunken mistake. A pregnancy that changes everything. A betrayal between brothers that can't be undone. This isn't a love story. Not yet. It's the destruction that clears space for something real 🖤 ©️ _RelleLebby_// R. L.

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.

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.

Jihoon Park came to Northwood University for one thing only: a fresh start. Not a mixed apartment full of strangers. Not late-night arguments in the kitchen. And definitely not Ethan Hayes. The hockey star everyone seems to love. Arrogant. Careless. And exactly the kind of guy Ji refuses to tolerate. After publicly humiliating him in front of half the campus, Ethan decides to get revenge the only way his pride will allow: by paying someone to make her fall for him... just to break her heart. But revenge gets complicated when feelings become real. Because somewhere between shared apartments, midnight conversations, jealousy, and secrets neither of them wanted to admit- Ethan Hayes falls first. And far harder than he ever intended to.

"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."

"You just hit a ping pong ball at my face! Why wouldn't I be mad?!" "It was an accident!" --- Park Seoyeon - The female member of NCT

Rain had a fairly easy life until college. A baby, a deadbeat baby daddy, and no college degree later, she finds herself struggling to make ends meet and maintain her sanity. Losing her job right before Christmas doesn't help. Just when she's reached her breaking point, a mysterious job opportunity overseas becomes available. Starting the new year in a foreign place will prove to be extremely difficult...is Rain up for the challenge? Submission for the open novella contest 2019!

People see me as a brat. I see myself that way too, nothing to worry. Yes, I do get everything I want but it can't still change the fact that I don't get what I needed the most. It doesn't matter, right? Cause they know me as a brat, see me as one, that way I may say I am a brat, a lonely one.

[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

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Jung Koong (정쿵) is a young Korean-American student with a bright dream: to one day work at NASA. Fascinated by space, he immerses himself in research, formulas, and theories that defy the limits of imagination. While studying at the University of Houston, Koong meets William Carter, a renowned NASA assistant who has been teaching and inspiring young dreamers for over 20 years. The connection between the two goes far beyond professional admiration - a friendship full of teachings and silent glances begins to blossom. At the same time, Koong gets closer to Nicolas Oliveira, a young Brazilian researcher and writer who is also studying at the university. Nicolas shares his space and literary adventures on his YouTube channel, enchanting everyone with his stories. Curious, Koong discovers the channel by chance and is enchanted by Nicolas' passionate way of talking about the universe.

Best friends are supposed to do anything for each other. Pretending to be his very serious boyfriend to get his parents off his back isn't that crazy. All I have to do is put my personal feelings aside. Easy, right?

Cupid's Kettle Drums: Victorian slang term for a womans breasts. __ Choi Bora was beautiful, tall, skinny, and Asian American. She had every physical beauty standard checked except for the one she wanted most: boobs. She was obsessed with the concept of having a large chest and would frankly do anything non-surgical to get them. Unfortunately, the boobs Gods haven't been smiling at her. And a certain Southern boy was whispering sweet nothings to her. Note: Cover picture is not mine. Credits to the real owners on Pinterest.

PART 1 : Lily was abandoned from her parents because they can't afford her. Stupid right? Anyway, when she was only 7 years old, she was raised be her Aunty who was a women UFC fighter for the rest of her life. She doesn't know that she had alexithymia which means she can't feel physical pain; like for example, when she was in school, she was cornered by five girls; like two off them were holding baseball bats while the other two hold both of her arms; one girl hit her on the stomach while the another hit her from behind. The fifth one, just standing there watching her beating up. Now, she attends a new school that everyone hates the most. Which means the school kids doesn't give a damn or look down to the middle and low class.

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.)

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.