Korean Job Discussion Forums

[Pyongshin Sangja]

I bet they wish it were so....but I don't seem to recall 25% of the men in, say, Cheongyang-gun being married to Filipinas.
http://english.donga.com/srv/service.php3?biid=2005062880358

[astroboyfan]

So where is this quote from.. u have a link?

[bosintang]

[indiercj]

Amazing isn't it? The "most racist country in the entire universe" allowing this to happen? The "most xenophobic people" one has ever known marrying people of another race and have babies?

[Gollum]

[Real Reality]

Foreign women here can find marriage frightening
By law, foreigners who marry Korean citizens are eligible to apply for citizenship here after two years of marriage, but they also must have their partner's consent. These preconditions for citizenship are problematic, because abuse usually starts in the first few months of marriage, said Kim Yun-jeong, a counselor at an Anyang social services center. "Even if the women are qualified to apply for Korean citizenship, 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.
by Park Soo-mee, JoongAng Daily (September 7, 2004)
http://joongangdaily.joins.com/200409/07/200409072141067939900091009101.html

[Gord]

Most of the wives being imported are from China and are ethnically Korean anyway. After that, it is Chinese wives from western China in which they are unregistered or adopted girls from farming families (western China is pretty much entirely rural and decades behind the image of eastern China we see on TV with things like neon lights, power, and running water). As such, moving to Korea into farming families is step up even if it sounds bizarre.

After that, it's Vietnamese women as the third largest import group.

At least that is what I remember from when I read up on the subject earlier this year.

[winnie]

It was briefly mentioned on Arirang news....they made it sound like farmers only took foreign wives b/c they couldn't get anyone better(Korean women) to live in rural areas.


Reeked of the usual xenophobic/racist attitudes.

[Cedar]

Just because the new marriages is 1/4 to foreigners doesn't mean all the old wives have croaked. Overall percentage of women married to farmers is not anywhere near a 1/4.

[Corporal]

[weatherman]