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[viciousdinosaur]

I'm someone who loves statistics. I was looking at the numbers and I came across this interesting fact. Canadians are more likely to marry Koreans than other foreigners here.

Total non-Gyopo : 37,156
American: 23,244 62%
Canadian: 6,276 16.8%
British: 4,780 12.8%
Australian: 1,814 4.8%
New Zealand: 1,042 2.8%

Total non-Gyopo married 4,840
American: 2,525 52%
Canadian: 1,187 24.5%
British: 592 12.2%
Australia: 314 6.4%
New Zealand: 222 4.5%

Now I'll let you debate why this is, but I have on theory. Since there are such a large number of American Gyopos here, it's likely that many Americans choose to marry someone from their country as opposed to a local.

Here's the data of Gyopos here.

Total Gyopo 60,540
American: 42,934 71%
Canadian: 12,266 20%
British: 251 0.4%
Australia: 3,492 5.7%
New Zealand: 1,597 2.6%

[Joe Boxer]

[viciousdinosaur]

It seems it needs some explanation.

Americans make up 62% of foreigners working here in the country, but only 52% of those married to a Korean. This is excluding Gyopos, dual-citizens, and people from non-English-speaking countries. Canadians make up 17% of foreigners, but 25% of those married to Koreans.

These numbers are from the Korean Immigration website and are current to this year.


Another interesting fact. There are more Koreans living in the UK than NZ, but there are 1,597 Korean-Kiwis here and only 251 Korean-Brits.

Here are those statistics.

As a percentage of Overseas Koreans

US : 31%
CAN : 3.2%
UK: 0.6%
AUS: 2.2%
NZ: 0.5%

Looking at this we can see that Korean-Canadians are much more likely than other groups to be living in Korea as they make up 3.2% of overseas Koreans, but 20% of those living in South Korea.

Maybe the big question here is why does Canada have such a strong presence in SK? We have 1/10th the population of the US, yet we make up 17% of foreigners here compared to the US's 62%. A 1:3 ratio. Canada also has a tenth of the number of Koreans, but it's 20% vs 71%. Not even close to 10:1. More like 3.5:1

I honestly don't know. It can't be employer preference because Gyopos sponsor themselves. So it seems it's self-selective. Youth unemployment and unemployment in general is lower in Canada than the US. Plus there's free health-care and stronger welfare. It has to be some other factor. Maybe the biggest push to come to Korea is just being bored or the cold weather.

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[Lazio]

[viciousdinosaur]

[PatrickGHBusan]

Interesting list of stats.

Now unless you take it further and actually try to find a study that explains why one group of foreign nationals marries locals more often it will remain wide open to speculation, opinion and bar stool talk.

Which is fine and entertaining anyway.

[goreality]

You said Canadians are the mostly likely to marry here. But Lazio pointed out that actually Kiwis are more likely to get married. This throws a spanner into your theory. (21.3>18.9)
Joe Boxer also pointed out that although you use the word foreigners you only include typical E2 visa countries.

I would not hasten to guess that several Asian countries have a much higher rate of marrying Koreans. There are countries where virtually every woman living in Korea is married to a foreigner.

http://www.chinapost.com.tw/asia/korea/2011/02/08/290266/Chinese-make.htm

[viciousdinosaur]

Actually I just thought of something. It seems obvious now. Why are marriage rates high for all countries except the US? Well, it could be because there is a hiring preference for Americans, so non-Americans are looking for a competitive edge.

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[viciousdinosaur]

[rainman3277]

[northway]

I'm going to pretend this wasn't debunked and blame it on Maritimer escapism.

[Weigookin74]

[Weigookin74]

For the record, I'm a maritimer. So, I can criticize the region having experienced it's lack of hope personally. Thank you very much "Equal Opportunity!"