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byrddogs
Joined: 19 Jun 2009
Location: Shanghai
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| edwardcatflap wrote: |
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Holy crap man, how does she tolerate this incessant vomit inducing ranting against her own country and its people?
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Plenty of Korean women hook up with foreigners because they themselves dislike their own culture and especially what they see as society's attitude to certain ways of behaving. In these cases I've seen Korean women join in when their husband/boyfriend starts ranting against their own country. Just because you're born in a place doesn't mean you have to like it or its people as a group |
I can see your point here. My ex of 5 years while in Korea finally got fed up with the place and moved to Switzerland. She said that she doesn't ever want to live there again. I can't imagine why after being held at knife-point in an elevator by some wacko, being stalked at a previous job to the point where she feared for her life because of something that she had reported on by another wacko that had trapped her from trying to leave her workplace finally (the police were in a long stand-off with this nut-case for hours in this instance), constantly being followed by and propositioned by random wackos. Lots of people on here harp about how safe Korea is. Obviously, those that do aren't Korean women. |
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crescent
Joined: 15 Jan 2003
Location: yes.
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| Posted: Thu Oct 25, 2012 5:00 am Post subject: |
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| PatrickGHBusan wrote: |
| Yeah sorry, have quite a few western female friends married to K-men. Some still in Korea, some having moved to other places. That must have been unclear to you in your giddy hurry to respond. |
You do not have quite a few western female friends who are married to Korean men. I wonder how you quantify 'quite a few'. If it's over 3, you're exaggerating if not full out lying. |
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PatrickGHBusan
Joined: 24 Jun 2008
Location: Busan (1997-2008) Canada 2008 -
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| Posted: Thu Oct 25, 2012 6:50 am Post subject: |
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| crescent wrote: |
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| Yeah sorry, have quite a few western female friends married to K-men. Some still in Korea, some having moved to other places. That must have been unclear to you in your giddy hurry to respond. |
You do not have quite a few western female friends who are married to Korean men. I wonder how you quantify 'quite a few'. If it's over 3, you're exaggerating if not full out lying. |
By our last count it is 13 western women we (my wife and I) know who are married to Korean men. Some met them in Korea. Some in their home countries while those guys were there for work or other reasons.
Out of the lot and from the top of my head it breaks down thus:
5 Canucks (one of these even double dipped! She married one K-guy, they divoreced and GASP, she married another one), 4 Americans, 2 French (France), 1 Italian and 1 Peruvian.
Some we met while living in Korea and others here in Canada.
If you want, I can run a survey and publish the data? Would that help you out? 
No exageration or lying, sorry to dissapoint you but we all have different social circles.
I know it is hard for you to understand, grasp or even accept but some western women DO marry Korean men. It DOES happen and many of them ARE happy. I suppose ultimately that the divorce rate will mirror that of the average divorce rate for most marriages if that is any consolation. |
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crescent
Joined: 15 Jan 2003
Location: yes.
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| Posted: Thu Oct 25, 2012 1:31 pm Post subject: |
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| PatrickGHBusan wrote: |
If you want, I can run a survey and publish the data? Would that help you out? |
Yes, actually. Not only do I think you are lying about the amount, you are lying about relating their experience on the topic of this thread because I don't believe you questioned all of them on the subject. (especially the ones that didn't live in Korea)
Judging by the last line of your last post, I don't believe you even know the topic of the thread. |
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NYC_Gal 2.0
Joined: 10 Dec 2010
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| Posted: Thu Oct 25, 2012 2:55 pm Post subject: |
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I have 2 western friends and one western acquaintance who are married to Korean guys. One's Irish, one's American, and one's English. The two guys that I'm friendly with (I haven't met the acquaintance's husband) are great guys.
One of the ladies told me that people used to ask her husband "how much?" as if he were her pimp, and she certainly did not dress like a prostitute. |
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hiamnotcool
Joined: 06 Feb 2012
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| Posted: Thu Oct 25, 2012 3:08 pm Post subject: |
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One of the ladies told me that people used to ask her husband "how much?" as if he were her pimp, and she certainly did not dress like a prostitute. |
Do you think that was a serious question? It sounds like they were just trying to insult him. I've wondered about how the foreign women that are married to koreans are treated. I have plenty that have dated korean men, but none that have married them. None of my friends that dated korean men seemed to have issues, but they weren't the type to have korean friends that were women. I've been told korean women are catty towards foreign women, and towards each other.
I wish more foreign girls would contribute to this. |
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Steelrails
Joined: 12 Mar 2009
Location: Earth, Solar System
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| Posted: Thu Oct 25, 2012 3:10 pm Post subject: |
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If you want, I can run a survey and publish the data? Would that help you out? |
Yes, actually. Not only do I think you are lying about the amount, you are lying about relating their experience on the topic of this thread because I don't believe you questioned all of them on the subject. (especially the ones that didn't live in Korea)
Judging by the last line of your last post, I don't believe you even know the topic of the thread. |
Dude, if you spend a significant amount of time in the Korean community overseas you're going to meet some 1st and 1.5 generation Koreans married to non-Asians, and especially some 2nd generation Koreans.
And in Korea, you're going to meet at least one, then some of the half-Korean people over here teaching, often you'll meet their parents. Some of them have Korean fathers.
I'll agree 13 is quite a lot to know (though maybe not so if you live say, in Vancouver or Flushing, NY), but knowing 3-5 isn't some wild proposition. |
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Koharski
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Joined: 20 Jul 2009
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| Posted: Thu Oct 25, 2012 3:31 pm Post subject: |
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Once again, a thread asking for experiences of western women with Korean men as been taken over by guys, and ends in the usual insults and swipes at people that have a different point of view.
Please stick to the topic!!! If you have no experience dating a Korean man, MOVE ON!!!!
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Moondoggy
Joined: 07 Jun 2011
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| Posted: Thu Oct 25, 2012 10:38 pm Post subject: Re: Western Women w/ Korean Guys: Do You Get Evil Eyes? |
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