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[ajosshi]

Korean girl seeks fake apartment to fool protective parents

A female Korean student living in New York is looking for a fake roommate and an apartment to hide her engagement with a Caucasian man from overly protective parents.

The unnamed student, who posted the request last week on social media network Reddit, said her �loving and protective� mother in Korea is sending her brother to the Big Apple to check up on her.

For the girl, the visit will reveal the fact that she is engaged to a white man. Her family has been told she is living with a female roommate.

She is now offering $100 to anyone who can lend her an apartment which she can pretend is hers, and extra cash for any female who will pose as her roommate.

Her post has attracted a series of hilarious responses from bemused Reddit users.

One user said he can pretend to be her excessively macho boyfriend to pick her up and �ride away in a loud and seemingly reckless manner after showing your brother your apartment.�

�Hopefully, when your brother passes on this scene to your parents, they�ll be distressed enough that they won�t care about the color of the �next� boyfriend/fiancee you show them,� he wrote.

In Korea, couples that live together before getting married are often frowned upon. Many Korean families still stress Confucian values and say it is important to keep one�s virginity until marriage.

http://view.koreaherald.com/kh/view.php?ud=20121010000596

[Dodge7]

This just goes to show how out of touch with reality of the outside world Koreans are. This girl probably thought nothing of it when she made her request on Reddit. She probably thought it was a normal request.
Meanwhile, Westerners were just amazed and dumbstruck at the buffoonery that is Korean "culture."

[Underwaterbob]

People do dumb stuff sometimes. Especially if they're young and in love. I don't see this moronic episode as being particularly representative of Korean culture.

[Dodge7]

[nora]

[StudentInKorea]

My Chinese friend back home did the same thing, except that she actually rented an apartment which she never visited. Not even once a month. I think what this girl is doing is more sensible.

[meangradin]

many years ago, i worked with a korean woman in ulsan who told her parents she was living in seoul with her twin sister when in fact she had married the korean guy her parents forbade her to marry. things got even weirder as she had a son with the guy. i still wonder how everything turned out.

[Dave Chance]

Hiding stuff from parents is definitely ramped up way more here compared to the west.

Might have to do with all the restrictions and nosiness that K-parents represent.

[Hugo85]

[andrewchon]

That's typical of New York. They think loughing about it will make the problem disappear. However, problem of damaged goods in the form of a seduced and de-flowered maiden remains. I'd say, the movie 'Si puo fare,... amigo!' had the right solution. Enraged bother wanted to kill the groom soon after the shot gun marriage so that the bride can live out her life as a respectable widow. She faked a pregnancy so that the 'honour killing' has to be postponed until the un-born child reaches his majority. That's 21 years old in most countries.