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    "title": "The Picture Bride",
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    "description": "<p>Could you marry a man you&rsquo;ve never met? Three Korean women in 1918 make a life-changing journey to Hawaii, where they will marry, having seen only photographs of their intended husbands. Different fates await each of these women. Hongju, who dreams of a marriage of &lsquo;natural love&rsquo;, meets a man who looks twenty years older than his photograph; Songhwa, who wants to escape from her life of ridicule as the granddaughter of a shaman, meets a lazy drunkard. And then there&rsquo;s Willow, whose 26-year-old groom, Taewan, looks just like his image &hellip; Real life doesn&rsquo;t always resemble a picture, but there&rsquo;s no going back. And while things don&rsquo;t turn out quite as they&rsquo;d hoped, even for Willow, they do find something that makes their journey worthwhile &mdash; each other.</p>",
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