In case you didn’t catch it on the news or somewhere else, on or around Valentine’s day a couple of orphans that were too poor to have a formal wedding decided to get married on the subway where they first met. A passenger on the train caught the video with his phone and posted it too the internet. People throughout Korea were moved by this, and saying that it was more romantic than a wedding that would of cost several hundred million won. People gathered together offering to send them on a honeymoon, give them money, several offers to help the couple were made, but no one knew the true identity of the young lovers. Until recently.

The wedding was nothing more than a project for the Theater and Film Department’s drama club at Hoseo University in South Chungcheong Province. The seven students that were involved never told the passengers on the train that it was a performance. They also never anticipated that someone would be recording it and then later submit it for distribution across the internet. The seven students were in shock when they realized the controversy they had unintentionally started.

Tearjerker Subway Wedding Was a Stunt