Disney has done the frozen Nordic princess, the Chinese warrior princess and many others in between. But a Korean princess? Not so much.
Harvard University student Julia Riew has set out to fix that. The 22-year-old Korean American senior wrote Shimcheong: A Folktale - a full-length musical inspired by a Korean folktale with a decidedly Disney movie vibe - as her senior thesis.
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