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catycat · Joined: 05 Dec 2006

I met my hubby in Hodgepodge.

I miss that place!!!

shaunew · Joined: 17 Apr 2007 Location: Calgary

I was introduced to my wife by some friends. We went out as a group ended up sitting beside each other and hit it off. Exchanged numbers met for coffee and then started dating. Over 3 years all ready.

Scott in Incheon · Joined: 30 Aug 2004

Met my wife in Canada. I was head teacher at a school and she a student. School had rules about teacher/student meetings even to the point where teachers had to leave a bar if students came in. So students would take teachers out for drinks when their time at the school was up.

My wife and few others students asked me out for drinks. My wife had a couple to get up the courage to ask me out on a date. Couldn't do it. We left together on the subway. She had to change lines. I thought she was a bit drunk and wouldn't make the change so I got off the train and went back to get her. This meant that I would miss the last bus out to my house and have to take a cab to get home. I don't know why I went back...I wouldn't have done that for most students.

She was still sitting on the platform. I thought drunk but actually she was kicking herself for missing he big chance to ask me out. She did...we went out..married...eight years later we have two kids and are extremely happy...

bluelake · Joined: 01 Dec 2005

Twenty-five years ago, I was first preparing to come to Korea to teach in a high school. I asked to have a faculty member to write to so that I could learn more about the school, city and country. I was introduced to a young teacher and we were penpals for the year prior to my trip. She met my train from Seoul when it pulled into the Kyongju train station. She was my guide, interpreter and best friend; a few months later, I married my best friend--after a quarter-century, she is still my best friend and in every way the same young lady I fell in love with and married.

debinoxford · Joined: 10 Jan 2008

so i met my ex through a friend. it was unwanted actually. i had no intention of dating, but my friend insisted i come to her housewarming party in order to meet a guy. bleh. well, i was pleasantly surprised and we dated for awhile. we were happy, i was nearly convinced i could marry the man. until he decided that he was ready to settle down and get married- but he didnt want to marry me. HUGE shock to me. oh well. guess i wasn't supposed to marry him after all. lol.

endo · Joined: 14 Mar 2004 Location: Seoul...my home

kiwiduncan · Joined: 18 Jun 2007 Location: New Zealand

Great stories so far. As for me... well, I live in hope.

Roch · Joined: 24 Apr 2003 Location: Seoul

bluelake · Joined: 01 Dec 2005

bejarano-korea · Joined: 13 Dec 2006

nicholas_chiasson · Joined: 14 Jun 2007 Location: Samcheok

I don't believe Korean women exist. I don't believe foreigners date them. I am also a very cranky guy in g-do.

Horangi Munshin · Joined: 06 Apr 2003 Location: Busan

A bunch of locals and foreigners left a bar and went to a dongdongju place. My wife and I got talking there. Met about a week later and started dating.
Almost 7 years ago now.

Been married over 5 years. One kid about to turn 4 and second one will be one this summer! Time flies!!

samd · Joined: 03 Jan 2007

Met her in the states, followed her here. Hopefully I'll end up like the rest of you long-termers.

nobbyken · Joined: 07 Jun 2006 Location: Yongin ^^

We were both volunteers at the WEC International HQ near London.

I came from Scotland for 2 weeks, just as she was in the last 3 weeks of a 4 month stint.
Her English was very limited, as was that of the Korean guy working with me. The 3 of us used to share breaks together, and we both felt God pushing us together.
Now been married for about 16 months, and we got a beautiful baby daughter, Grace, as a first anniversary gift.

Young FRANKenstein · Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2008 6:52 am Post subject:

I've met my K-gfs and F-buddies through a variety of different ways, I don't think I've met one the same way twice: work together, student, language exchange partner, internet, blind date, and bar (edit: forgot to add interent cafe, and most recently, my teacher).

The ones that lasted the longest were the language exchange partner and the bar, going on for several years each. The first K-gf I had was a co-worker at my first haggie job. We would have dated longer, but she went off to England for a year and by the time she came back, I had moved to Seoul.