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Smee
Joined: 24 Dec 2004
Location: Jeollanam-do
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 Posted: Fri Apr 07, 2006 2:13 am Post subject: Korea to Scrap Mixed-Race Discrimination |
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The government and the governing Uri Party Friday agreed to grant legal status to people having mixed-race backgrounds and their families, as part of measures to eradicate prejudices and discrimination against them.
The Ministry of Justice said it is reviewing a plan to give citizenship or residency status to those who marry Koreans, and to their children.
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``Many foreigners who married Koreans have given up raising their children in South Korea as they are not allowed to be given citizenship or residency under the current law,���� a ministry spokesman said. ``The ministry will review plans to grant such legal status to (those) foreigners concerned.���� |
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The nation��s mixed-race population is estimated at around 35,000, including ``Kosians,'' children born to Korean men and women from Southeast Asian countries, according to a Seoul charity group, Pearl S. Buck International (PSBI), that works with mixed-race children.
Statistics show that mixed marriages account for 13.6 percent of last year��s total.
The mixed-race population is expected to reach about 2 million by 2020.
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http://times.hankooki.com/lpage/nation/200604/kt2006040717233511990.htm |
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Satori
Joined: 09 Dec 2005
Location: Above it all
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| Posted: Fri Apr 07, 2006 2:34 am Post subject: |
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| Better late than never, and still a long long way to go. |
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rapier
Joined: 16 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Fri Apr 07, 2006 2:44 am Post subject: |
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A promising move and probably due to the new Woman prime minister, who is known for progressive and liberal views. Great.
the day a mixed race child can play in the playground without being the wangta is really something to look forward to. |
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Wangja
Joined: 17 May 2004
Location: Seoul, Yongsan
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| Posted: Fri Apr 07, 2006 3:09 am Post subject: |
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Bloody 'ell: having read the first paragraph I reckoned Rapier had taken a sensible pill.
Then I read the second.  |
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flotsam
Joined: 28 Mar 2006
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| Posted: Fri Apr 07, 2006 3:18 am Post subject: |
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http://joongangdaily.joins.com/200604/06/200604062154023939900092309231.html
As usual, all the Korean papers carry the same stories on the same days. Above is the Joongang Daily version of the same thing Smee posted. What I found interesting is the entire lack of attention paid to Korean women who marry foreign men.
It's a kosher day at the presses when the print is thick with rice farmers and ranchers bringing in SE Asian wives for baggin' bap, bein' barefoot, birthin' Bum-Suck and burpin' Betsy, but what about the college educated urbanites and their forays into international nuptials and merry miscegenation?
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| Last year, Seoul ranked first in number of international marriages �� 14,804, followed by Gyeonggi province with 7,317 and North Gyeongsang province with 2,344. But the proportion of international marriages to all marriages was highest in South Jeolla province, at 18.5 percent, followed by Seoul's 18.2 percent and North Jeolla province's 17.6 percent. |
This is disingenuous reporting at best. South Jeolla beats Seoul by only .3% in the overall ratio of national/international marriages, but not a word of the South Jeolla total. Come on now, it's more than likely lower than Gyeongsanbuk-do's 2,000ish.
So, you wiley Korean journalists, who are those 14,000+ Seoulites marrying? I would love to see the statistics on that...
Hi! Seoul. |
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bigverne
Joined: 12 May 2004
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| Posted: Fri Apr 07, 2006 3:23 am Post subject: |
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| The mixed-race population is expected to reach about 2 million by 2020. |
I think this article has very vaguely defined the term mixed-race, so that the children of Korean-Japanese couples, and Korean-Chinese couples are defined as 'mixed-race', even though such offspring would de indistinguishable from other Koreans, and would likely not face problems of racial discrimination.
I think the true figure for people who are really mixed-race, like children of Black-Korean, and Caucausian-Korean couplings will remain very small. |
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flotsam
Joined: 28 Mar 2006
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| Posted: Fri Apr 07, 2006 3:24 am Post subject: |
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Another thought.
14,000 seems awfully low to me. Make a bet that number doesn't include Koreans residing in the ROK with marriages registered abroad?
And they may have fudged it as well.
Hell, I bet if we tallied all the married people on this board and their married friends to two degrees of separation, we could account for more than 14,000 Seoul-based Korean-Foreigner marriages... |
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Captain Corea
Joined: 28 Feb 2005
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Fri Apr 07, 2006 3:30 am Post subject: |
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| On hte news they said that they are now going to stop calling them "mixed-race" and start calling them "immigration-children" (bad translation). |
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bigverne
Joined: 12 May 2004
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| Posted: Fri Apr 07, 2006 4:55 am Post subject: |
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| Also, it is unclear whether ethnic Koreans from China (which makeup a sizeable proportion of international marriages) are included in these statistics. |
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Privateer
Joined: 31 Aug 2005
Location: Easy Street.
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| Posted: Fri Apr 07, 2006 5:20 am Post subject: |
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| The mixed-race population is expected to reach about 2 million by 2020. |
I think this article has very vaguely defined the term mixed-race, so that the children of Korean-Japanese couples, and Korean-Chinese couples are defined as 'mixed-race', even though such offspring would de indistinguishable from other Koreans, and would likely not face problems of racial discrimination.
I think the true figure for people who are really mixed-race, like children of Black-Korean, and Caucausian-Korean couplings will remain very small. |
From the Korean perspective, half Korean half Japanese people are mixed race. Is this not obvious??
And offspring certainly will face problems of racial discrimination. Not even Koreans will always be able to tell by looking, it is true, and Asians are also regarded as relatively closer than others, but you've got to know how important background and family are in Korean society. Family background will come out pretty quick.
Hopefully by the time the new generation grows up attitudes will have changed a lot for the better. |
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Privateer
Joined: 31 Aug 2005
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| Posted: Fri Apr 07, 2006 5:28 am Post subject: |
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| Also, it is unclear whether ethnic Koreans from China (which makeup a sizeable proportion of international marriages) are included in these statistics. |
I believe they are, but, even if not regarded as a different race, they still have low social status. Also the largest numbers of non-Korean wives come from Vietnam and the Philippines nowadays. |
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pauly
Joined: 24 Sep 2004
Location: Incheon
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| Posted: Fri Apr 07, 2006 10:05 am Post subject: |
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| I wonder if they would be doing this if there were no famous mixed Koreans, such as Hines Ward, who I heard being interviewed on the radio just last night, and Denis Kang. I asked a co-teacher about the blatant hypocrisy when dealing with mixed Koreans. She agrees that they're generally looked down upon, but when they becomed famous, like the two mentioned above, Korea embraces them as one of their own. |
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dulouz
Joined: 04 Feb 2003
Location: Uranus
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| Posted: Fri Apr 07, 2006 12:45 pm Post subject: |
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Well, Korea was nice while it lasted. This is the beginning of the end.
When does Seoul gets its 150th mosque and hard core unemployable urban core? |
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jinglejangle
Joined: 19 Feb 2005
Location: Far far far away.
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| Posted: Fri Apr 07, 2006 3:00 pm Post subject: |
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| The mixed-race population is expected to reach about 2 million by 2020. |
I think this article has very vaguely defined the term mixed-race, so that the children of Korean-Japanese couples, and Korean-Chinese couples are defined as 'mixed-race', even though such offspring would de indistinguishable from other Koreans, and would likely not face problems of racial discrimination.
I think the true figure for people who are really mixed-race, like children of Black-Korean, and Caucausian-Korean couplings will remain very small. |
I think they tend to discriminate against those groups pretty heavily as well Verne. When they know about it. |
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jinglejangle
Joined: 19 Feb 2005
Location: Far far far away.
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| Posted: Fri Apr 07, 2006 3:01 pm Post subject: |
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Well, Korea was nice while it lasted. This is the beginning of the end.
When does Seoul gets its 150th mosque and hard core unemployable urban core? |
Are you serious?
Race mixing doesn't transmit Islam dulouz.
And I really want to say what I think DOES transmit it, but I'll refrain. |
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