Ostrava plays host to foreign workers

This is an interesting story about expatriate adjustment of people who are not like the stereotypical American expats. 

AFP: Foreigners find their feet in gritty Czech city OSTRAVA, Czech Republic (AFP) — Fresh from her first Czech lesson and an accompanying headache, Kyoung Mi-Park poked at the chicken and boiled potatoes on her plate and pondered her family's difficult adjustment to life in a gritty Czech industrial city.

The 36-year old former elementary teacher and two daughters reluctantly left South Korea's second city Pusan to follow her husband on a five year mission to Ostrava, a place she had never heard of, where South Korean multinational Hyundai is establishing its first European car plant nearby.

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