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john [Visitor] — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 20:24:52 +0000

Hi,
Unfortunatly I don't speak Korean, so cannot comment on...syndrome.
However, on the disparity between marriages; this is my wifes(Korean) second marriage, her first was to a Korean. She experienced DV from her husband and mother-in-law before escaping to a western country after ending up in intensive care. I am not saying ALL Korean males are perpetrators of DV, but women do seem to have a harder time in Korean culture(I know that's a generalisation). My wife is the eldest daughter, her sisters all married westerners, mainly due to their observations on her marriage when teenagers. Talking to members of KIMWA (Korean womens group of which my wife is a member) this is not an unusual phenomena. Talking to my male in laws and Korean male friends, they are just not into western women; they find them "aggressive" (but I suspect they mean independent).
Then there is the obvious physical attraction of Asian women, who conform to a desirable stereotype for many western men.
By the way, I enjoy reading your blog, I don't always agree with the content, but it is always interesting and amusing.
Kind Regards,
John.

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admin [Member] — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 18:52:03 +0000

I really don't believe in 한류 syndrome for most Western women. At all.

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James [Visitor] — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 16:17:59 +0000

This issue has been widely reported in news media (PRI's The World comes to mind) and mail-order brides play a big part of this. There have been a lot of coverage on the situation in Vietnam especially -- it borders on (or flat out is) human trafficking, and Korean men in rural areas where the women-to-men ratio is quite bad are really pushing these foreign bride numbers.

I think Japan and America are big on the women list because (1) they are huge countries intimately connected with Korea, (2) they (plus, China) have huge ethnic Korean populations that statistically may be counted as foreigners, and (3) both have 한류 syndrome (much less so in America, though).

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admin [Member] — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 10:03:55 +0000

Yeah, I wondered about the gyopos, too. I wasn't sure how Korea would count them since they count Koreans as they wish when necessary.

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Diana [Visitor] — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 08:20:51 +0000

There are 3572 (soon to be 3573--hahaha)couples "like you" in Korea... Though I wonder if they're counting 교포s... I suspect about 50% of marriages between a Korean and an American involve first/second gen 교포s.

Probably not counting them, though, since everyone who has Korean blood is Korean in Korea.