Jin and Hattie’s leap to fame as Korea’s top international couple

When Harriet Emily Heo, better known as Hattie, found herself lost in the heart of Seoul one summer day in August 2019, she had no idea her life was about to change forever. Freshly arrived from the U.K. as an English teacher, Hattie waited for a new Korean friend, Heo Jin-woo, or Jin, inside a convenience store, unaware that she was standing on the very street where Jin’s parents had first met decades earlier. That serendipitous meeting marked the start of a remarkable journey. Together, they would soon become Korea’s most-followed international couple on YouTube. Five years after their fateful meeting, Hattie, 29, and her husband Jin have become prominent symbols of a multicultural Korea, amassing a YouTube following of 9.8 million subscribers. “Honestly, we never knew it would get this big,” Hattie said during a recent interview with The Korea Times. “I thought I would stay in Korea for a year, then go to acting school back home. We made our first video for fun. We just wanted to make each other smile, and maybe a few others too. I never imagined this would become our life.Weiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei Korea Times Weiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei Korea Times