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Housewife's daily chores worth 65,000 won, says Seoul court
According to a Seoul court, daily household chores involving cleaning, cooking, shopping, laundry, nursing, tutoring and many other things one can think of as a housewife's work, is worth 65,734 won - that of a skilled worker in urban areas. "Since a housewife does not only do simple physical jobs such as cleaning, laundry and nursing but also engages in a managerial task such as planning household expenses, her wage should be regarded as that of a special laborer rather than a simple laborer," Judge Lee Jung-ryeol at Seoul Southern District Court said yesterday.

In yesterday's case, however, in which a housewife Kim sought due compensation from an insurance company after a car accident took her ability to carry out general household duties, Lee noted, "Particularly in the case of the plaintiff Kim, she had been taking care of a disabled daughter apart from the doing household chores, so the insurance company should compensate her as a typical special (skilled) worker."
By Lee Sun-young, The Korea Herald (June)
http://www.koreaherald.co.kr/SITE/data/html_dir/2005/06/08/200506080010.asp

Women aspire to be housewives without any of the housework
women are happy to abandon the workplace but not if it means spending all day at home cooking, cleaning and looking after children. Instead they want to play the "role" of housewife with a little help from, for instance, a nanny, and someone who does the ironing.
By Sarah Womack, Social Affairs Correspondent (November 5, 2004)
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/05/11/nwife11.xml&sSheet=/news/2004/05/11/ixhome.html

More Women Keep Secret Stash of Money
A little more than half said their piggy banks contained less than W1 million, but almost one-quarter said they stashed away between W1 million and W5 million, while six women had amassed between W10 million and W20 million, and five had more than W20 million squirreled away. These women said their secret reserves help them through difficult times, and some said their hidden treasures gave them confidence.
Chosun Ilbo (June 6,2005)
http://english.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200506/200506060001.html

The Wallets of Those in Their 50's Are Clammed Shut
Starting this year, Mrs. Kim (51, Hyoja-dong, Wansan-gu, Jeonju, Jeollabuk-do), a housewife, has decided to start "restructuring consumption" to reduce the monthly cost of living from 2,000,000 won to 1,500,000 won. She has substantially decreased the cost of living, which takes up half of the 4,000,000 won salary of her husband, who works at a medium-sized company. If you exclude the 500,000-won repayment of student loans for her children, the net cost of living is merely 1,000,000 won. This year Mrs. Kim has even given up her annual trip with her husband, a tradition of 20 years, and has ceased going to the hairdresser. She personally dyes her hair with a 5,000-won dye.
by Byong-Ki Lee and Chang-Won Kim, Donga.com (April 07, 2005)
http://english.donga.com/srv/service.php3?biid=2005040825228

43 percent of married women in 'other man' syndrome
More than 43 percent of 16,947 married women aged between 24 and 35 said they are seeing someone other than their husbands and 57.3 percent of them are engaged in sexual relationships, according to a one-month online survey jointly conducted by Herald Media Inc. and Daum Communications.
by Hwang You-mee, The Korea Herald (March 3, 2005)
http://www.koreaherald.co.kr/SITE/data/html_dir/2005/03/03/200503030031.asp

Two-Thirds of Married Women 'Can Imagine Affairs'
Park Mi-jin (not her real name) is 43 and seeing a younger man despite being married for 15 years. "In the past, when I told my friends I had a lover, they used to say I was crazy, but now they say I'm clever."
Chun Kyoung-hee of DeRyook International Law Firm says, "Fewer people now think of marriage as an eternal promise, so infidelity and divorce are rising rapidly." As women grow more active in society and their economic power increases, their thinking about marriage and affection has grown freer, she said.
For a thesis on extramarital relationships, Sungkyunkwan University student Yang Da-jin interviewed 196 women in the Seoul-Gyeonggi Province area. ��Of the respondents, 26 percent said they had had an extramarital affair,�� she says. ��The women were frank and unconcerned writing down their experiences on the questionnaire."
Chosun Ilbo (May 30,2005)
http://english.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200505/200505300011.html

[tzechuk]

May be that's why my husband doesn't give me 2+m a month because I don't clean and I don't manage household expenses.. we have cleaners that come thrice a week and he is the one who manages the household expenses... but I do do the laundry and the nursing of my baby and I go grocery shopping too! Oh almost forgot - I cook!!!

Hmmmm... if I start doing the cleaning, I wonder if he'd up my stipend.... lol.

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I know, I've read it already, RR.. you posted it before.

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