Tag: Love Story

  • Uttar Pradesh witness another cross-border love story: South Korean woman arrives to meet her beau and marry

    By IANS

    SHAHJAHANPUR: Cross-border love stories seem to be the flavour of the season. In the latest one, a young South Korean woman, Kim Boh-nee, travelled across continents to meet her beloved, Sukhjeet Singh, in Shahjahanpur. 

    Their love story began two years ago in a coffee shop in South Korea. After spending six years as an employee at the coffee shop, Singh’s life intertwined with Kim’s when she joined the same cafe as a billing counter attendant.

    Their friendship, over time, developed into a love story. Singh had to return to India for a six-month period.

    Overwhelmed by the separation, Kim reached Delhi, then Shahjahanpur, with the support of a friend and reunited with Singh.

    The emotional reunion at Singh’s home filled their families with happiness.

    As per news reports, the couple recently embraced Sikh traditions in a wedding ceremony at a gurdwara, solidifying their commitment.

    Sukhjeet and Kim were married at a local gurdwara in Shahjahanpur.

    Singh has revealed his intentions to establish a life with Kim in South Korea.

    Currently in India on a three-month tourist visa, Kim’s stay has spanned a month.

    She is set to return to South Korea in the coming weeks, while Sukhjeet Singh has plans to follow her after a three-month interval.

    Both families are celebrating this union, finding joy in the blend of South Korean and Indian cultures.

    This international tale of love comes soon after two recent incidents that show that love has no boundaries.

    First, a married Indian woman, Anju, travelled to Pakistan to meet her friends who she befriended and fell in love with on Facebook. Both are married now.

    In the second case, Seema Haider, from Pakistan came to India to live with her partner Sachin after they met on the gaming platform PuBG.

    SHAHJAHANPUR: Cross-border love stories seem to be the flavour of the season. In the latest one, a young South Korean woman, Kim Boh-nee, travelled across continents to meet her beloved, Sukhjeet Singh, in Shahjahanpur. 

    Their love story began two years ago in a coffee shop in South Korea. After spending six years as an employee at the coffee shop, Singh’s life intertwined with Kim’s when she joined the same cafe as a billing counter attendant.

    Their friendship, over time, developed into a love story. Singh had to return to India for a six-month period.googletag.cmd.push(function() {googletag.display(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); });

    Overwhelmed by the separation, Kim reached Delhi, then Shahjahanpur, with the support of a friend and reunited with Singh.

    The emotional reunion at Singh’s home filled their families with happiness.

    As per news reports, the couple recently embraced Sikh traditions in a wedding ceremony at a gurdwara, solidifying their commitment.

    Sukhjeet and Kim were married at a local gurdwara in Shahjahanpur.

    Singh has revealed his intentions to establish a life with Kim in South Korea.

    Currently in India on a three-month tourist visa, Kim’s stay has spanned a month.

    She is set to return to South Korea in the coming weeks, while Sukhjeet Singh has plans to follow her after a three-month interval.

    Both families are celebrating this union, finding joy in the blend of South Korean and Indian cultures.

    This international tale of love comes soon after two recent incidents that show that love has no boundaries.

    First, a married Indian woman, Anju, travelled to Pakistan to meet her friends who she befriended and fell in love with on Facebook. Both are married now.

    In the second case, Seema Haider, from Pakistan came to India to live with her partner Sachin after they met on the gaming platform PuBG.

  • Control the Distance

    Express News Service

    In Twenty-Five Twenty-One—written by Kwon Do-eun and directed by Jung Ji-hyun—Min-chae stands in as the audience. She is Na Hee-do’s teenage daughter, fallen out of love with ballet and her mother in one shot only to run away to her grandmother’s home. She stumbles upon her mother’s diary entries and training logs (a fencing gold medallist) transporting us to late 90s and 00s infancy. Min-chae gasps at striking moments in her mother’s love story and feels cheated by cliff-hangers. Just like us.

    A romantic drama has no business having this many plot twists and cliffhangers but 2521 does and is all the better for it. It’s the story of Na Hee-do (Kim Tae-ri) and Baek Yi-jin (Nam Joo-hyuk), their friendship and love, their companions in Ko Yu-rim (Bona), Ji-woong (Choi Hyun-wook) and Seung-wan (Lee Joo-myung). It has all the dramatics—a dash through the airport and a gold medal falling off a table in slow motion. But more.

    The series is about the ephemerality of youth, it talks about process of growing up by slowing down the timelapse, it displays a casual disregard for anhedonic pursuits and underlines those happy memories that could be learning curves. Multiple times in the series the characters behave in selfish ways and give themselves credit. Hee-do and Yi-jin go their separate ways early on to either get pieces of life together or to make dreams come true. As Hee-do puts it, it is indeed about how sometimes being selfish can be a considerate thing to do.

    The series begins with South Korea’s IMF crisis of 1997 and the economic and social privations intensely felt by our young to a fault coterie. The setting forms a bedrock to write characters beyond their age, feeling and experiencing situations they are far too tender to experience. Yi-jin is forced to rebuild his life with one foot into his twenties and a long line of creditors in his family’s wake. Hee-do is relatively unaffected, but it takes the toll on her mother with a career in news only for the fencing prodigy to fend for herself at eighteen.

    The late 90s when technology was a few light-years out of the pocket and yet within grasp makes the tribulations faced by characters moving. Suddenly, long distance—like a few hours’ drive from the city—is at the far end of a rainbow and measured in painful minutes and miles. A mobile phone is an expensive gift for parents of limited means and the caller ID is a feature that could have saved someone from embarrassment. It gives more time to focus on their hurting instead of what’s happening around them.

    This is the sort of background information that adds high stakes to Hee-do and Yi-jin’s friendship and eventual love story, their relationship built on tiny measures of kindness, a far bigger accomplishment compared to the ironic distance coupled with physical intimacy and existential dread today. It might be quaint, but real. When they are consensual in choosing the kind of love to co-exist in, it rings true. When they feel real pain due to each other’s actions and yet back each other in ways few do, it rings true.

    The arcs of Ji-woong and Yu-rim and the lonesome but dissident disposition of Seung-wan offer a welcome insight into appreciating the present. The first two are hopeful in love, the latter seldom sways from the larger picture. It’s a bond that holds the group together, a bond that is hyperaware of the lives they are leading while appreciating the lessons learned on the way.There were a lot of theories about the drama’s arc followed bypolarizing reaction to its culmination. But nothing comes close to the little moments of joy that Twenty-Five Twenty-One was able to muster. Like how it managed to converge a girl and a woman within Hee-do—mostly thanks to Kim Tae-Ri’s performance and the writing—never infantilized by anyone around her. Or the momentary shot of Yu-rim and Hee-do rubbing Ye-ji’s head before their teammate’s final fencing match as she quits the sport which only makes you wonder—why is quitting not more romanticized in pop culture?

    Together they embody Hee-do mantra—turning tragedy into comedy as a coping mechanism. It is hard not to be consumed and enthralled by the show’s mix of bleakness and cheer, of an immediate urge to appreciate days gone by. “Control the distance”, they are taught in fencing. Hee-do and Yi-jin are not star-crossed lovers, they are hardly tragic. They are two people who wanted love to last longer than themselves and instinctively knew that controlling the distance was the only way to achieve it.

  • Taylor Swift’s re-recorded version of ‘Love Story’ features unseen memories with fans

    By ANI
    WASHINGTON: The wait is finally over! American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift, has the perfect musical gift for fans this Valentine’s Day, as she released the new version of her popular 2008 track ‘Love Story’.

    The new song titled ‘Love Story Taylor’s version’, which is now available on YouTube and other music applications, stays true to the original. Additionally, a lyric video of the same song was also shared on YouTube. It features throwback footage and pics of the star posing with fans.

    My new version of Love Story (Taylor’s Version) is out now Get it instantly when you pre-order Fearless (Taylor’s Version) https://t.co/NqBDS6cGFl pic.twitter.com/KdHdZXnWbP
    — Taylor Swift (@taylorswift13) February 12, 2021

    The new version of the track has an addition of different chords than the original one. The video has snaps of young Taylor and also features some beautiful moments of the singer with fans. The video ends with Taylor making a heart with her hands and on the side, it says, ‘With love to all my fans’.

    Ditching the fairytale romance along with Romeo and his white horse, the singer compiled some of her priceless throwback videos and photos with her fans. “We were both young when I first saw you,” she sings with the video flashing montages of her moments with fans.

    The singer also shared the news about her song on Instagram, writing, “My new version of Love Story (Taylor’s Version) is out now.” As per E! News, she had first debuted a clip of the track in December during a commercial for dating service Match, made by her longtime friend and actor Ryan Reynolds.

    The original hit was a part of her 2008 album titled ‘Fearless’. The 31-year-old singer had earlier made an announcement where she said that she will be re-recording her 2008 album ‘Fearless’.

    The re-recorded ‘Fearless’ album will include Taylor’s big hits like ‘You Belong to Me’ and ‘Fifteen’, as well as six previously unreleased tracks that did not make it onto the 2008 album. The album would in total contain 26 songs, which will also include six new songs that have never been released before.

    The re-recording is happening because Taylor’s entire Big Machine Label Group catalogue was sold. According to the singer, it had happened without her knowledge and was sold to music manager Scooter Braun in 2019. The sold catalogue had Taylor’s album from the year 2006-2014 which includes Taylor Swift (2006), Fearless (2008), Speak Now (2010), Red (2012) and 1989 (2014).