The Filipina singer, who is pretty well known in her province, sang a list of soulful pop songs such as Lionel Richie's "Stuck on You," "I Miss You Like Crazy" by Natalie Cole and "You Got It All" by the Jets.
She then began to sing "Tears" by iconic Korean rock vocalist So Chan-whee from the 1990s, a song one would not be expecting to hear at a bar in a rural area of the Philippines. But Nica, who worked in several bars in Korea until 2019, knew the lyrics by heart.
Nica was employed as a singer in bars catering to U.S. soldiers and expats in Pyeongtaek and Ansan in Gyeonggi Province, Okpo on Geoje Island in South Gyeongsang Province, Yeosu in South Jeolla Province as well as the nation's second-largest city of Busan.
She still remembers the day when she got accepted by a Korean recruitment agency in 2014, a dream-come-true moment for her who had been longing to live in Korea since she was 17 years old.
But that was before she knew the dark side of the country.
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