'Kyung Soon is a character who appears in the Season 6 episode "In Love and War" (episode #8). The part of Kyung Soon is played by Vietnamese-born actress Kieu Chinh.
About Kyung Soon[]
Kyung is an aristocratic South Korean woman whom Hawkeye is enlisted by Colonel Potter to help attend to her mother, who is sick, as the two begin to fall in love with one another. At first, Hawkeye is angry about being told who to treat, and in what order. He assumes this woman is a local countess and is using her influence to butt ahead in line of wounded soldiers, which angers him.
At first nasty and rude towards her, Hawkeye's attitude changes when he gets to the "estate", and sees its nothing more than a bombed, burnt-out husk of a building, where Kyung Soon is taking care of several people, older people and young children, all of whom are displaced because of the war.
Hawkeye quickly goes from skepticism to admiration of Kyung, as he quickly develops feelings for her. Despite being warned by Col. Potter that "war and romance don't mix", Hawkeye asks Kyung out on a date, which he manages to patch together.
Hawkeye really falls hard for Kyung, and he spends every waking moment off duty with her. While in O.R., he gets word that Kyung's elderly mother has taken a turn for the worse, and he rushes to her side, but its too late - Kyung's mother has died, leaving Hawkeye only able to comfort her in her grief.
When Kyung tells Hawkeye that she plans to leave the area and move further south, away from the warring, she says she has sold the car which she owned, as well all of her valuable belongings, with plans to relocate with the young girls she looks after, Hawkeye is hurt and angry, but Kyung says she has no choice, as they promise to "keep in touch", knowing that it's probably the last time they will ever see one another.