Ginseng Tango is a travel memoir that chronicles Cheryl Pallant's move to the Korean peninsula to teach English, dance, and American culture and tracks her involvements with tango, Buddhism, shamanism, acupuncture, and death threats from a jealous woman. The book reveals the author's attempts while going through a divorce to feel at ease as a foreigner and navigate struggles between ancient and modern practices, western and eastern ideals, feminism and Confucianism as N. Korea launches missiles.