'That's my story': Oscar winner thrills S.Korean minari farmers

SIHEUNG, South Korea: For one South Korean couple who spend nine months a year farming minari, watching the leafy green become world famous at the Academy Awards brought pride and excitement.

"Minari", which tells the tale of an immigrant Korean family trying to farm in the United States, brought home six nominations and one Oscar - for supporting actress Youn Yuh-jung - on Sunday. The movie uses minari, a green with interconnected roots that takes at least a year to grow, as a metaphor for the immigrant experience. Youn's character cultivates the plant in a creek bed when she arrives from South Korea to look after her grandchildren.