Korean Job Discussion Forums

[AfroBurrito]

http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/asia-pacific/south-korea/140403/the-developed-world-s-least-helpful-husbands

[metalhead]

Yes but be that as it may Korean men still believe in equality for all.

[jamesy]

Showed this to my wife today - just to remind her what her life could have been like

[Who's Your Daddy?]

I'd like to defend Korean men here. Korean men work very long hours. And a lot of married women don't work. So I think if the women are doing the majority of the household chores, that's reasonable.

[Chia Pet]

It's not fair that women are denied chances for promotion and equal income, but if a wife doesn't have to go to work and her husband works, she should do the housework. It seems pretty obvious. Likewise, if a wife works and her husband doesn't, he should do the housework.

[EZE]

[metalhead]

Yeah, Korean men work long hours, but who came up with that system in the first place? Korean women? No.

[joelove]

[Fox]

[Captain Corea]

[wolverine]

As a married Korean American with young children here in Korea, I guess I can be lumped into the "korean men" category in this post. I've been lucky to have a cushy University teaching position which allows me to spend alot of time with my family, hence I can say that I easily surpass the weekly 141 hour OECD average of helping out the wife with the household chores. I've also had the opportunity of befriending many of my oldest daughter's preschool friends fathers and also witnessing the life of my brother-in-law and I realized that unlike myself, these gentlemen work ghastly long hours and after hearing them talk on many occasions about their family, know that they are caring fathers who if they were at home more, would do more of their share of household chores. I know that most of them(I'm talking about the younger generation korean men), like my household and captain corea's from the above post, have a similar "whoever is doing less, does more at home" philosphy, I've seen it firsthand with my brother-in-law and male family members here. If we sit on our asses all day, our modern day korean wives would literally murder us. I don't think it's fair to trash korean men as whole as uncaring husbands and fathers.

Korea easily has the longest OECD working hours of any nation and their system, particularly the social welfare system is messed up and this needs to be changed. With the younger generation, I sense that alot of the cultural norms and values are changing for the better in this country regarding household contributions by the husbands.

[byrddogs]

[Stan Rogers]

I'm a husband in Korea and I'm extremely helpful. That article is a crock.

[yodanole]

Another pointless, out of context, yet judgemental observation.

[wishfullthinkng]