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bogey666
Joined: 17 Mar 2008
Location: Korea, the ass free zone
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 Posted: Tue Mar 17, 2009 4:26 pm Post subject: Females Want Nuptial Partners With Over W300 Mil. |
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something to be said for being refreshingly honest (for both sexes)
I give Koreans "points" for refreshing honesty.
http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2009/03/117_41455.html
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Females Want Nuptial Partners With Over W300 Mil.
By Bae Ji-sook
Staff Reporter
What are the financial terms of endearment for Korean men and women in marriage?
According to a match-making company, men expect women to have more than 100 million won ($69,000), while men are expected to have over 300 million won ($210,000), appearing to show that both sexes have somewhat unrealistic standards for marriage.
Biennare conducted a survey of 264 female and 264 male members and found 31 percent of male respondents want their nuptial partner to have more than 100 million won, followed by 21 percent who wanted at least 20 million won and 14 percent with 10 million won.
For women, 27 percent answered more than 300 million won, followed by 24 percent with more than 500 million won and 17 percent with at least 100 million won.
Since a university graduate earns less than 24 million won a year pre-tax, the amount of money is unfeasible for most people, analysts said.
Such standards are a huge jump from two years ago, when a majority of men expected 30 million won from women and women wanted about 100 million won from men.
Biennare spokesman Sohn Dong-kyu said, ``As the global meltdown is affecting everyone, more people are giving up the idea of saving money after marriage but crave someone who already has it.''
Women were more determined to find financial stability than men. On average, about 92 percent said they want their partners to have more than 100 million won when getting married.
They said the appearance or outlook of men was the least important factor in seeking spouses, followed by age gap and academic background. Instead, they said annual income, potential and fame to be the most affecting factors.
Many males still stuck for appearance, as more than 54 percent said they want their spouses to be exceedingly attractive.
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Xuanzang
Joined: 10 Apr 2007
Location: Sadang
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| Posted: Tue Mar 17, 2009 4:29 pm Post subject: |
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| Even the ones who have "it" could just really owe it to the bank. |
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bogey666
Joined: 17 Mar 2008
Location: Korea, the ass free zone
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| Posted: Tue Mar 17, 2009 4:40 pm Post subject: |
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my co-teacher just said when I asked her how much she expected..
is that per month? and I said.. no just overall.
she said it's going to take a lot more than that.
she wants the man to have enough so that she doesn't have to do anything.
she said.. maybe I should get myself a sugar daddy. 
I knew there was a reason I've always liked her!  |
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ChinaBoy
Joined: 17 Feb 2007
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| Posted: Tue Mar 17, 2009 9:41 pm Post subject: |
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| 300,000,000 KRW isn't a sugar daddy? Hmmm. I'm assuming a person with that much actually has a job that earns quite a lot of scratch, not some lazy do-nothing that is trying to live off of it. |
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bassexpander
Joined: 13 Sep 2007
Location: Someplace you'd rather be.
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| Posted: Tue Mar 17, 2009 10:02 pm Post subject: |
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Yeah, that's the dream of every guy... marry some ho who just wants your money and will screw whomever she pleases on the side. Probably can't do housework, cook, or clean to save her live. Couldn't hold down a job.
Yuck. Pass.
She'll be fugly in a few years anyway. marry a good person with a personality and brains. |
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bogey666
Joined: 17 Mar 2008
Location: Korea, the ass free zone
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| Posted: Tue Mar 17, 2009 11:44 pm Post subject: |
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| bassexpander wrote: |
Yeah, that's the dream of every guy... marry some ho who just wants your money and will screw whomever she pleases on the side. Probably can't do housework, cook, or clean to save her live. Couldn't hold down a job.
Yuck. Pass.
She'll be fugly in a few years anyway. marry a good person with a personality and brains. |
actually my Korean co teacher would be none of the above. I'm not sure she's big on housekeeping and chores, but otherwise she's a very refreshingly cool chick (because she can be very honest and sarcastic, which I LOVE - very unusual for Koreans)
what's particularly refreshing is that she's not shy about hiding the fact that she does NOT want to be a teacher (at least from me)
this doesn't mean she takes her duties lightly or isn't a good teacher (I think she's quite good actually) but is blunt that this is NOT what she wants to do with her life (especially Korean hierarchical administrative bullshit, etc)
she has a 2 hour each way commute to get home every day (since she lives in Seoul, on the OTHER side) AND on top of having to handle my paperwork this year, they also made her a homeroom teacher.
She's not happy, and I can't blame her. In fact I feel sorry for her. |
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