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[Real Reality]

Foreign women here can find marriage frightening
Lyn Forias ended up being one of the hundreds of foreign brides who find themselves in an abusive relationship with a Korean man. And like the other women, Ms. Forias found out that extricating herself from the marriage was more difficult than she had expected because she had few rights under Korean law.

"...most Korean men who marry foreign wives often don't agree to sign for their wives' Korean citizenship because they fear that the women might run away after obtaining the visa. We've seen a foreign woman with a child who's lived with her husband for five years, but he still won't agree to sign it."

"While international marriages are on the rise in Korea, children raised by foreign parents have always been excluded from the benefits of social welfare," says Yu Gyeong-sun, Mr. Kim's secretary.
http://joongangdaily.joins.com/200409/07/200409072141067939900091009101.html

[peppermint]

[weatherman]

The whole article is a great read. Lots of eye opening information.

[JongnoGuru]

I find these two articles -- Reality's and Peppermint's -- troubling and highly representative of a growing malaise of despair in Korean society.

The first highlights the problem that Korean men are increasingly unable to find suitable marriage partners in Korea anymore.
The second indicates that Korea is becoming an undesirable place to live or simply unable to support older (though far from "elderly") single Korean men anymore -- not impoverished farmers or unemployed youths, but "well-educated professionals"(!) However small their numbers have been up till now, nobody a scant 5 or 10 years ago could have dreamed ANY Korean men might one day be seeking their futures, fortunes and wives (!!) in... Uzbekistan? Vietnam? or Mongolia??? Bloody incredible...

I guess every Korean expected some ill-effects from the country's rapid industrialization & modernization (pollution, traffic, spiraling housing costs, broken homes, juvenile delinquency, etc.). But the sort of deeper demographic rifts and social tumult indicated by these articles is nothing anybody would have dreamt... not this fast, not this soon, not this weird.

All I can say is -- wow!

The Guru

[just because]

And I though Korean only married HAN blood

How much cross-racial breeding is going on.

The more the better i say

[Eazy_E]

The heartache and misery those women go through must be hard to take. If any of us had a bad spell in Korea, it would be paradise compared to the predicament faced by a woman who married an abusive Korean man with very little legal recourse, trapped in an alien society with a child to care for. I hope that the Korean Government sees fit to recognize these women as human beings, if not Korean citizens. They need to do the right thing.

Everyone can take something from these articles. They're very moving.

[Real Reality]

Difficulties Face Third World Women who Marry Korean Men
"I gave birth a week ago, and my mother-in-law awoke me in the morning to prepare the New Year's dishes. I had to work, cook, and wash dishes all day long. My body ached so much, I cried." "They don't care for the daughters I gave birth to. I don't mind such treatment, but what wrong did our daughter do?" "I've tried to talk to them. I even screamed and yelled at them. Then my husband held out his fist and told me to 'go back to your country.'"
Digital Chosun
http://english.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200409/200409170024.html

[peemil]

They're pigs the lot of them.

[mindmetoo]

[sadsac]

JongnoGuru wrote.

[mindmetoo]