What is a Korean woman doing, living and working in Indonesia? And not doing too badly, given her companys US$3 million in annual revenues. Ordinarily, when Korean women come to Indonesia, it is almost always as a dependent spouse, whose husband may be working in one of the 1,800 Korean companies operating in Indonesia.

There are currently about 50,000 Koreans in Indonesia, arguably the largest number of people in a foreign community. But unlike m