Korean Job Discussion Forums

pest2 · Joined: 01 Jun 2005 Location: Vancouver, Canada

The comment about the guys who are agro workers in the countryside being the biggest Asian bride customers is probably right. I've had a couple of Koreans (who live in the countryside, no less) tell me that quite often, the women in those areas even divorce their farming husbands and move on if he can't make enough money to support her. It might be a part of the rapid transition from being an agricultural society to a production and industrial based society, as well as the gender ratio.

Fishead soup · Joined: 24 Jun 2007 Location: Korea

Korean men need to be more vigilant in preventing interracial marraige.

RACETRAITOR · Joined: 24 Oct 2005 Location: Seoul, South Korea

McLovin · Joined: 17 Nov 2008 Location: Taiwan (Korea wannabe)

Importing foreign brides from Vietnam and the Phils is very common in Taiwan and Japan too. Mostly due to more independently minded Taiwanese/Japanese women not being willing to be the servants of male chauvinists. I would assume the Korean case is similar.

Adventurer · Joined: 28 Jan 2006

santafly · Joined: 20 Feb 2008

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The reason they are promoting mail order brides is because Korea has the lowest birthrate in the world/fastest ageing population. Soon, the Korean economy will eat shit because there won't be any consumers. The import bride isn't going after a career - she is expected to have kids (new consumers) and take care of them.

djsmnc · Joined: 20 Jan 2003 Location: Dave's ESL Cafe

I was at Panera Bread in the US with my girlfriend one night, studying, using laptops and whatnot. This geeky dude with a large shnoz started yelling at us to get our attention and chat. That's one thing I hate about the US: everyone thinks the public is a friggin Agora within which you can talk to complete strangers about utter nonsense that you have pent up for however long. I was wearing headphones, so I made a nasty, condescending face when I removed them; a face that said "I am here for the faux-intellectual stimulation that a commercial bakery like Panera Bread provides. WHAT DO YOU WANT?"

He went on about how he met this girl from the Phillippines online and wanted to marry her sometime. He asked me one question "How did you bring her over from Korea?" I said "She came here on her own accord to study and be with me." Then he was like "How did you work out the visa requirements?" I said "She has family here and had a pretty easy time working out the details for a student visa because of that fact." Then he said:

"Man, I couldn't get one if her family was here. Then there might be the chance that she could run to them at any time. Huh huh!!"

I said "OK...Well, I'm going to listen to my music now"

positive · Joined: 05 Nov 2008

That kind of thing never happens at Jimmie John's.

On a more serious note, I get scared whenever people assert that it would be easier to seal off someone from the world so they can't leave, rather than improve themselves so a partner would want to stay. It can be a sign of an abusive mate.

From the folks I've talked to, it seems that there is still a preference towards boys in Korea. I'm trying to get my school to assign random numbers to the kids instead of numbering all the boys then all the girls. Maybe I'm reading too much into this, but I think that the kids would pick up on the "boys first" attitude.