Seoul Mates

It's Christmas in Cicely and Maurice gets an early present when a man from Korea arrives in town and claims to be his son. The man is named Duk Won and he has also brought his mother (Yong Ja) and his son (Bon Joo) to Cicely. Maurice has always wanted a son but a "middle aged China man" is not exactly what Maurice had in mind. Maurice puts the family up in his house but things are strained and it is only when his son is about to go home to Korea that Maurice starts to accept him and makes an effort to be his father.
Maggie doesn't want to go home for Christmas and she becomes accident prone. Maggie then learns in a letter that her parents are not spending a traditional Christmas at home but are instead going to St. Thomas. Maggie gets more confused than usual and starts to moan and groan about her parents not having Christmas even though she didn't want to go anyway.
Joel agonizes over the Christmas tradition and decided to celebrate with a Christmas tree. Joel eventually gives the tree to Maggie when he decides that is it just not for him because he is Jewish.
Shelly feels depressed that she is missing a traditional Christmas mass and so Holling sings a Latin mass for Shelly himself.