bassexpander
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 Posted: Fri Nov 27, 2009 7:17 am Post subject: More Koreans seek foreign spouse for 2nd marriage |
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I think they quoted the stats wrong for women. They gave high numbers of Korean women marrying Chinese, then said more of them preferred men from developed countries like Japan and the USA. So which is it? I think they flipped around the China/US numbers by mistake.
http://www.koreaherald.co.kr/NEWKHSITE/data/html_dir/2009/11/28/200911280012.asp
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More Koreans opted for foreign spouses when marrying for the second time, the national statistical office said yesterday.
According to Statistics Korea, the number of Korean men who married foreign women stood at 28,163 last year, more than quadrupled over the past nine years. Of them, 9,930, or 35 percent, were remarried people, up from 24.6 percent back in 2000.
The percentage of Korean women remarrying foreign husbands also increased from 36.4 percent in 2000 to 41.5 percent last year. In 2008, a total of 8,041 Korean women married foreign men, up 72.6 percent over the cited period.
The statistics agency also indicated that there were some differences in the nationalities of foreign husbands and wives.
Nearly 60 percent of Korean men married Chinese women for the second time, followed by those marrying women from Vietnam and the Philippines. Meanwhile, Korean women chose men from Japan (40.9 percent), China (38 percent) and the United States (8.5 percent) for their second marriage.
"Korean men preferred women from China or other Southeast Asian countries after their failed first marriage, while Korean women chose men from developed countries such as Japan and the United States," said an official at the agency..... |
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