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The Documentary Podcast

My Big Korean-Iranian Wedding

The Documentary Podcast

BBC

Society & Culture, Documentary, Personal Journals

4.32.6K Ratings

🗓️ 10 December 2019

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Hossein Sharif is an Iranian boy, about to marry Hee Sue, a South Korean girl. As the families begin to meet, Sharif discovers all the criss-crossing roads that the couple's home countries have travelled. In the last 50 years, South Korea and Iran have switched places in the world table of economic prosperity. South Korea has risen while Iran has fallen behind. Hossein and Hee Sue's families begin to discover a parallel universe, a world of “might have beens” and divergent paths.

Transcript

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0:00.0

The wedding ceremony for Hessean and Hesseu will begin shortly.

0:05.0

Can you remain seated and make yourselves comfortable?

0:10.0

Korean people, almost Korean people don't know much about Muslims, but Muslim is negative.

0:17.0

Put yourself in my shoes. I just find out my daughter is going to marry someone from Iran.

0:27.0

It will be greatly appreciated if you put your cell phones on silent.

0:35.2

I don't know nothing about Iran.

0:37.6

I'm nervous.

0:39.2

I don't know what's going to happen next.

0:41.5

I search the internet about Iran.

0:43.0

That's my Korean mother-in-law.

0:46.0

It's all about nuclear bombs and whatnot.

0:49.0

I'm nervous.

0:50.0

So what do I do?

0:51.0

I pick up the phone and call the Iranian embassy in Seoul.

0:55.0

She ceremony?

0:57.0

She has a ceremony, good.

1:00.0

Okay, so.

1:01.0

This Korean lady picks up the phone.

1:06.0

I tell her I'm worried.

1:08.0

I ask her, is it true men have more than one wife in Iran?

1:12.0

Isn't it a dangerous country? She calms me down. She says it's not like what you think. She says, I know you're worried and I know Iran has fallen on difficult times now, but it once was a great country.

1:26.7

Don't worry about the nuclear bomb.

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