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[Corporal]

[casey's moon]

[sistersarah]

[waterbaby]

I've been married to my Korean sweetheart for almost 1000 days

We moved back to Australia this year and now I get to watch him struggle with day to day living crap in a strange and foreign culture

We met through friends at an "english club" meeting. He showed up one night, we sat next to each and fell in lust immediately. He is hot hot hot. We fell in love soon after and were pretty much inseperable ever since!

Both our families readily accepted our marriage (phew!)

We don't really have too many cultural problems. Some times I think he has some weird ideas about stuff, but then again, so does he about me. It's nothing that's ever really caused concern between us. Just the occassional miscommunication which is more of a language barrier than a cultural one.

It's taken us both a while to settle into life in Australia (living arrangmeents, jobs etc) but now that we've finally done that, it's fantastic

Australia will be our home base from now on but neither of us rules out a stint back in Korea (or somewhere else overseas).

Oh, and he cooks some wickedarse korean food for me

[casey's moon]

Waterbaby, what is your husband's job there?

My husband and I toy with the idea of moving to Canada in the future, but we're worried about his job prospects as an immigrant...

[anae]

Fairy cat - I can't believe you never run into couples like us! I know of at least 100 and I am sure those numbers have grown in the years since I left Korea.

I met my Korean husband back in 1997 at an Internet Cafe Members outing at Daedun San. We dated for two years and got the approval of his parents to marry in 1999. After two years of married life, we finally were able to immigrate to Canada in 2001.

Our biggest obstacles came after marriage. I could not adjust to Korean work expectations - long hours, coworker weekends, and entertaining of clients (even if it was only a couple of times after closing big deals). My husband also disliked them and often brought me to things even if I was the only wife there. I also did not really enjoy the family holidays and the work that was required to prepare for them. My in-laws accepted a lot of things when they took me on as a daughter-in-law, so I just bit my tongue and did my part. However, now I hear my hyung-nim is pushing to get rid of some of the more tedious cooking.

My husband is one of the most open-minded people I have ever met and working things out is very easy. We both share the housework including cooking, as I am currently working. At first, he was the expert Korean cook, but I think I have surpassed him. I am also the only daughter-in law who makes her own Kimchi.

Life in Canada is great and we have never been more content. My husband first set up his own IT contracting business, but later got a permanent job with one of his clients. We are now expecting our first baby on Boxing Day - much to the relief of the in-laws who probably thought it was never going to happen.

[waterbaby]

[taegu girl]

Okay, my turn. I also met my husband in a non graded adult conversation class (he was my student for a month) . We dated around 3 years and married in 2001- getting his dad's approval was hard. Came down to hubby already having a work visa being processed to work in the States for an American company so he told his dad you can see us get married in Korea before we leave or we will wait and get married in the US. FIL gave up and we got married four weeks later. MIL has always been accepting of the relationship(i first met her 2 years before we got married). 6 months later we moved to the States and hubby now works for an American company as an engineer designing cell phones. Some korean foods i make better and some he makes better so it all depends on what we are planning on eating. He also has come to like many American foods too so food is not a problem. Things are going fine culturally, i guess it helps i lived in korea 4 years and he is working on his 3rd year here. Once in a while he is a little blunt with his words but most of the time it is due to translation factors. He treats me well and we are soon to be proud parents in about 2 weeks. We also waited to have kids which i think was one of the best things we could have done during the transition period.

[waterbaby]