How Korean Corn Dogs Changed My Life : Finding love, fame and myself in Seoul book cover

Travel Writing

How Korean Corn Dogs Changed My Life : Finding love, fame and myself in Seoul

by Alice Amelia

At twenty-one, fuelled by K-dramas and a need to reinvent herself, Alice Amelia moves to Seoul.


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About the book

She knows no one, doesn't speak the language, and hasn't tried kimchi, let alone Korean corn dogs. But real-life Seoul isn't the glossy, subtitled fantasy she expected.

Determined to follow her dream, Alice becomes everything she wasn't in England: dousing every meal in gochujang, dancing in K-pop videos, dating famous models, and even injecting salmon sperm into her eye bags.

As she breaks into the Korean entertainment industry which she idolised, finds friendship, and flirts with love, her life spirals in ways she never imagined.

Caught between who she was and who she's becoming, will she ever belong in Korea? And what is she willing to sacrifice to stay?


Book details

Published by Little, Brown Book Group

Hardback ISBN: 9780349020693 320 pages 2 Apr 2026 223 x 145 x 29 (mm) 446g