Korean Job Discussion Forums

[Goku]

So... how is it?

[RyanInKorea]

You need a vacation Goku... or at least a break.

IMO of course,
Ryan

[itaewonguy]

I WISH!!!!!

But im sure her daddy would never allow it anyway!!

[nosmallplans]

I've dated two really well-off girls and they were both actually quite easy to please - though I suppose in both cases they were the 'rebel' daughters, off doing things their dads didn't like.

It was actually quite fun because you couldn't impress them - so you just did what was fun. I couldn't possibly afford the places they parents took them on weekdays so on the weekends we'd go eat at shijang or go get some foreign food that their parents wouldn't normally eat. Even gifts were easy. They were smart enough to know I couldn't buy 'em Coach bags and what not and they were quite happy with flowers or well-planned trips around Korea.

However, marrying a rich girl is a completely different story. If you or your parents aren't independently wealthy, don't even try. The depth of insanity that is Korean wedding culture is impossible to understand. You are forced to flush away tens of thousands of dollars.

[Goku]

[Xuanzang]

I wonder if you'll be able to talk to and stand them...

[crescent]

I DATED one and it was difficult. She's in Paris now, studying fashion design. One of the hardest relationships I've had. She wasn't focused on money, nor was she gong-ju byung. She was just super lazy and a little demanding when she didn't get her way.

At 22 she had her own house which her mother bought for her and her sister; 3 bedrooms and a solarium, and it was filthy. She used to let her dog piss and plop all over the floors instead of sliding the door open and letting it go outside. When she got the energy, she'd slide a piss-soaked mop around and that was that. I couldn't believe it.

Eventually she moved in with me (who knows why) and I became her maid.

[Baby Wipes]

I've had a couple gf's whose families were extremely well off and high standing. I found them to be the most compatible with my personality. Both had gone to school overseas at top level schools and as such had excellent english and a decent global perspective of things. Also they were less tolerant of the savage behavior of some korean men. Both also loved nothing more than just hanging out and having fun. Awesome gals.

Marriage though, i found out, was an iron clad welded shut door. Both are now married (unhappily i might add) to wealthy Korean guys and livng in Singapore and Belgium. Arranged by their families of course.

[cdninkorea]

A coworker of mine is engaged to a private practice doctor with a SKY uni medical degree. Parents don't approve at all, but she's apparently very rebellious and doesn't care.

[redaxe]

[youtuber]

If she has to say that she is rich, she probably isn't.

[Baby Wipes]

[PRagic]

Get the best of both worlds. Date/marry a woman with serious potential to make it big. You'll end up with less b.s., more money, and a common history to boot. What you won't wind up with is a princess who doesn't know the value of money. That's a deal-breaker, or at least it always should be.

[UknowsI]

I'm quite confused with what's considered rich in Korea. I'm confused with what's considered rich anywhere in the world, but even more so in Korea. I have the impression that people seem richer compared to their wealth in Korea than back home. This also makes me confused when someone calls someone rich, as I don't know what they put in the term.

Anyone got an idea? Annual income above $300k? Net worth above $10M? Just my guesses, but it could be anything.

[PRagic]

Actually, most Koreans think the opposite; Americans, for example, are thought to be living well above their means in terms of living standards, housing, cars, and vacations.

To be 'rich' in Korea, at least in Seoul, means to have about US$ 2 million in liquid assets NOT including your house/apartment. This is the last figure I saw on the Korean news.