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Koreaboo

By: Shenee Howard
Narrated by: Susan Wokoma, Daniel Henney
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  • Ep 1. Who?

    Ep 1. Who?
    Sep 27 2023

    Shayla’s life takes an unexpected turn when both her writing career and her love life fall apart. She takes an odd job behind the scenes of a K-pop show and has a chance encounter with an idol who inspires a huge decision.
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    24 mins
  • Ep 2. Welcome to Korea

    Ep 2. Welcome to Korea
    Sep 27 2023

    Shayla arrives in South Korea only to find out that the job she arranged for herself is not quite what it seemed. Dal, the son of her landlord, is very sceptical about Shayla’s motivations for visiting Korea, wondering if she is yet another Koreaboo.
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    29 mins
  • Ep 3. Fanchant

    Ep 3. Fanchant
    Sep 27 2023

    Shayla hatches a plan to meet Youngjae without being creepy. However, her inability to speak much Korean is a problem…
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    27 mins
About the Creator- Shenee Howard

About the Creator

Shenee Howard is a content creator, writer, and director of projects with happy endings for people who don’t usually get them. As a fat girl in the suburbs growing up in the 2000s, life was rough, and crushes were forbidden for girls like her. Her goal is to create swoon-worthy stories she never got herself. When she’s not writing about swoon-worthy men and book besties, she’s throwing clay, walking her dog, and thinking about Keanu Reeves. Her debut novel, Dear Plant Daddy comes out in November. You can follow along with her adventures at heyshenee.substack.com.

Susan Wokoma
Daniel Henney
Joomin Hwang
Lorna Laidlaw
About the Performer- Susan Wokoma

About the Performer

Susan Wokoma was born in Southwark, London, to Nigerian parents. Her television debut was at 14 years old as one of the eight children selected for CBBC’s Serious Jungle. Susan was a member of the National Youth Theatre of Great Britain. At 18, while studying for her A Levels, she landed her first professional acting role in the BAFTA Award-winning That Summer Day. The following year, she started her actor’s training at The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA). Susan made her film debut in Half of a Yellow Sun and made TV appearances in Bluestone 42 (BBC), Crashing (Channel 4), and in the E4 comedy hit Chewing Gum as Cynthia. Susan’s first leading role was in the E4/Netflix coproduction Crazyhead. Susan has since starred in Enola Holmes and Enola Holmes 2 (Netflix), Save the Cinema, Toast of Tinseltown, and Year of the Rabbit. Susan is also a writer, and her older sister, Emi, is a musical theatre actress.

About the Creator- Daniel Henney

About the Performer

Daniel Henney is an internationally accomplished film and television actor in America and overseas. He is currently a lead in Amazon’s hit fantasy series The Wheel of Time opposite Rosamund Pike.
Henney became a household name in Korea after starring in the hit television drama My Lovely Sam Soon and later went on to star in the Korean series Hello Franceska, Spring Waltz, and The Fugitive: Plan B.
Henney made his American television debut in Three Rivers and hasn’t stopped working since. After serving as a series lead on two seasons of Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders, Henney joined the franchise’s flagship series Criminal Minds, where he was a series regular for four seasons. Additional television credits include Hawaii Five-0, NCIS: Los Angeles, and the Emmy Award-winning Revolution.
Henney’s experience in film includes voicing Tadashi Hamada in the Academy Award-winning Disney animated film Big Hero 6. His additional film credits include X-Men Origins: Wolverine, The Last Stand, Seducing Mr. Perfect, My Father, The Spy: Undercover Operation, and Shanghai Calling, the first American/Chinese coproduced romantic comedy with an Asian leading man and a Caucasian female lead. His most recent film, Missing, where he stars opposite Storm Reid, received a 94% on Rotten Tomatoes and quickly became a box office hit for Sony.
Henney is also an accomplished model, having worked in Italy, France, Paris, London, New York, and Hong Kong. He has graced the covers of 13 magazines in the South Asia region, some of which include Vogue Korea and GQ Taiwan.

About the Performer- Joomin Hwang

About the Performer

Joomin Hwang is an actor born and raised in South Korea now based in NYC. TV/film: Hail Mary!, Iron Fist, Isn’t It Romantic, In the Heights, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. Broadway: &Juliet, The Prom. Joomin became the first native Korean ever to play a non-Asian-specific principal role on Broadway as Francois Dubois in &Juliet.

About the Creator- Lorna Laidlaw

About the Performer

Lorna Laidlaw has worked extensively in television, theatre and radio. She is most widely recognized as the wonderful Mrs Tembe from BBC’s award-winning daytime soap Doctors and as the much-loved matriarch of the Bailey family, Aggie, on Coronation Street. Her other television credits include Grandpa in My Pocket, Twirlywoos, It’s Not All Bach and Botticelli, Blue Heaven, Playing the Field, Emmerdale Farm, The Afternoon Play, and is a regular presenter of Tikkabilla.
Lorna’s theatre credits include I Knew You, These Four Streets, Soulfires, Nothing Compares to You, Getting it Straight, Mickey and Me, The Devil’s Only Sleeping, The Last Carnival, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Nightbus, Nativity! The Musical (Birmingham Rep), The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Romeo and Juliet, Pat & Margaret, Green Forms (New Vic Theatre), Big for Me, Little for You, Singing Rock (Midlands Arts Center), Macbeth (Foundry Theatre), Educating Rita (Wolverhampton Grand), Misery, Little Shop of Horrors (Redditch Palace), Buddy (E&B Productions), Shot Through the Heart (Pentabus), Putting it About, The Cervical Monologues (Women & Theatre); Thatcher – The Musical (Foursight Theatre), and Forgiven (Theatre Absolute).
Lorna is also an established theatre and television director.

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Hilarious! Awesome romcom and Dal is so dreamy!

On episode 5 and I’m obsessed with this story! Amazing characters, compelling story, funny (no corny jokes - refreshing and hilarious dialogue), and a really cool world to explore. I absolutely love Dal! He’s such a good romcom MMC - realistic, a believably grumpy side (without being overly so), smart, swoony - the whole package! I always struggle liking any of the love interests in romcoms and this character is perfectly done.

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  • 10-10-23

Cute

Interesting, storyline, with nice introduction to cultural experiences in Korea. Could deal with less K-pop in between the story.

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Very Cute!

Some parts were cringy but his was adorable! Hope there's more episodes to come.

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Perfect K-Pop and K-Drama Rom Com

I really loved this series! The story is perfect for K-Drama and K-Pop fans. The performers did a great job! I felt like I was watching it.

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Hilarious! Incredible! Moving! Swoony!

Listen, I’m not even a k-pop girlie but this is the best rom-com I’ve heard on Audible so far!!! The story is so engrossing I literally cannot stop listening! I’m currently re-playing episode 6 because it is THAT GOOD and the actors are EATING!!!! Dal?!? Swoon!!! Shayla?!? I’m obsessed with her!!!! When do we see Black women characters that get to be so unapologetically themselves???? Ugh!!!

Not to mention the music is so damn catchy, I think I need to start listening to some k-pop?!? I get to close my eyes and pretend I’m in Seoul?!?!?! Like, what?????

Why are you still reading this?? GO LISTEN!!!

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Great Story, incredible actors

I'm only one episode in but I love this story. it's so immersive and thought out. I can't wait to binge the whole series

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Loved it!

The story and performance were very entertaining. An enjoyable listen!! Sequel please!! Awesome story! 👌🏾

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I need more !!

I loved it. What a marvelous surprise. I was a bit doubtful the first episode as I was not keen on the sound mixing and such (I’m an audio nerd). But seriously it picked up quite well and I am hooked. I loved the characters and how the various relationships developed. As a kdrama addict I didn’t think this would do it for me but I was wrong. Plus the upside of listening to a kdrama is that you can get your chores done and you don’t feel guilty about spending five hours bingeing. Well worth it. May I have some more please. Koreaboo is an excellent listen

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I wish I can listen to this again for the first time!

This not only exceeded my expectations, but fed my romcom/kdrama heart! I love the way Shenee delivers stories and I can tell how much hard work went into this masterpiece. Also… the actors?! The music?! How can I forget about this and listen to Koreaboo for the first time again :’)

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This needs to be an Amazon show NOW

What an incredibly fun, cute and daydreamy whirlwind!! First off, the female lead Shayla played by Susan Wokoman was so good I forgot I was even listening to a show feeling as if she was my real life friend telling me about her new exciting life!
stories with people of color are so very much needed. even more show thick girlie representation.
perfectly written by Shenee Howard from start to finish.
I had so much fun with this. Amazon needs to spin this off into a Prime show like yesterday. 👍🏾 👌🏾 👏🏾🤗
10 out of 10 would recommend

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