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Home to Home: How a Yemeni Refugee Found Love in South Korea

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Photo by Juyoung Choi. South Korea, 2019.
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In the summer of 2019, more than 500 Yemenis refugees arrived at Jeju Island, South Korea. With...

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Mohammed Ameen came to Jeju Island, South Korea, as a refugee in 2018. There, he met Ha Min-Kyung, who hired him as a chef. She wanted him to help run the new restaurant she had opened for the Muslim refugees from Yemen. As they worked together, Ameen and Min-Kyung fell in love, and eventually got married. This is how it happened.

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