misher
Joined: 14 Oct 2008
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 Posted: Sun Oct 17, 2010 6:05 am Post subject: |
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I don't think so. You gotta remember that Korean parents control their children, even through adulthood. You honestly think some Korean Ajumma is going to let their precious 25 year old son marry a poor, uneducated, unskilled North Korean woman?
The well off South Korean men will continue to date South Korean women. It will be the poor South Korean men who will benefit most from marrying North Korean women.
Either way, reunification will bring major social upheaval. South Koreans will be 1st class citizens, and North Koreans will be looked upon as "lesser". It will take GENERATIONS before everything is normalized. Even still, there will be many problems. |
Marrying a poor North Korean women is still 10x better than her son marrying a woman from the Philippines no matter how rich or educated she may be. To a Confucian Ajumma, marrying a North Korean woman, while not entirely ideal, is much better than marrying a foreigner or not getting married at all. Trust me on this one.
Well-off south korean men will for sure date south Korean women exclusively because they can. An average or below average looking guy just needs to be from a good family and have a job with income potential and can basically land himself a very nice South KOrean lady.
Now for the rest of the average to poor guys, do you honestly think they will choose a marginal south Korean girl over a pretty North Korean one that is willing to do everything for him and his mother? Give me a break. South Korean guys in the medium to low income bracket (which counts for the majority of South Korean men) will be lining up t marry Norht Korean women.
Another sad reality about unification will be the numbers of North Korean women working in the South Korean sex industry which is by no means unsophisticated or lacking in patrons. North Korean women will do it for half the price and for them the money will be good. South Korean adjossis will also still pay because the women are min jok.
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| Either way, reunification will bring major social upheaval. South Koreans will be 1st class citizens, and North Koreans will be looked upon as "lesser". It will take GENERATIONS before everything is normalized. Even still, there will be many problems |
Normalization will take even longer than that or never happen at all. In Germany "Ossies" are still looked down upon and when the wall fell that generation rejoiced because they could be reunited with loved ones. The thing is with Korea is that all of the people that were separated during the war are dropping like flies. In another 20-30 years no one will be left that was directly affected. No one will be able to say that they know people in North Korea and they long to be reunited. You will have 2 completely different countries with absolutely no social ties. The younger generation of South Koreans that will take over have already shown their indifference. North Korea is not wanted. Min Jok or not.
If reunification happens I expect there to be generations upon generations of discrimination. I also expect the South to get richer while the North only gets a small piece of the pie. This in turn will create resentment and social fragmentation. I really don't see a strong harmonious Korean peninsula ever again. It has just been too damn long. And I also don't trust the South Korean government (Samsung and Hyundai) to develop North Korea without putting their own interests first (this is really no different than any other government controlled by a business elite so I'm not taking a stab at SK here). Minjok or not, the bottom line for the Seoul Yangban, who will be even more disconnected from North Korea in another 20 years, will still be a top priority even if the majority of North Koreans stay poor. |
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