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Military publication Stars & Stripes reports that an interracial couple in South Korea will be the subject of a new reality TV show:

Not an uncommon tale of love and marriage but theirs will be one a lot of people will soon become intimate with. From Monday through Thursday, South Korean TV station KBS2 will chronicle their married life in its regularly scheduled program “In Gan Geuk Jang,” starting at 8:50 p.m…

They hope the broadcasts will help erode negative stereotypes of marriages between South Koreans and U.S. servicemembers.

The Largents have their own stories to tell about that, too. Like the occasional cab driver who’s told Yu-sung she’s attractive enough to have drawn any number of Korean suitors, so why did she marry Largent? Or the incident around Christmas 2002 when the couple tried to enter a Daegu restaurant. An employee stopped them at the entrance and pointed to a blue and white sign that read in English: “Foreigners not allowed.”

Hopefully this show, together with Hines Ward’s rise to fame, will help break down some of the negative stereotypes about mixed people and couples. It seems like South Korea has been struggling with this issue for quite awhile now. Here are some of the many stories we’ve tracked on MMW:

Hines Ward prompts mixed race debates in Korea
Mixed celebrities increasingly popular in Korea
Korea struggles as number of interracial couples rises
Korean women protest discrimination against mixed couples, children
You are “Mixed Blood”?