Kimchi & BBQ

Jake Thompson, thirty-two, a straight-talking Texas account manager, did not plan to fall in love on September first. And certainly not with a Korean software engineer who welcomed him to GlobalLink Solutions by sanitizing her desk.But Han Ji-eun is precise, direct, and keeps a running mental list of everything that matters. And Jake — with his cowboy hat, his Korean language app, and forty-nine consecutive days of practice — is starting to appear on that list.From Austin to Abilene, from Abilene to Seoul, two families with nothing in common learn to share the same table: a Texas rancher teaching himself Korean calligraphy, and a sinology professor following handwritten brisket instructions. A mother who speaks through food and another who hugs like a grizzly bear. And somewhere between gochujang and smoked paprika, between take care of her said in Korean and I will said in Texan, a truth that never needed a grand speech to be real.Kimchi & BBQ is a warm, precise, bicultural romantic comedy about how two separate worlds can become one shared space — if you leave room for it.