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[Ya-ta Boy]

OK, so that's a bit over the top...But this is good news:

Favorable feelings up on foreign weddings
September 06, 2007
In supposedly homogenous Korea, eight out of 10 people say they have a favorable attitude toward foreigners married to Koreans and six out of 10 say they would allow their children to marry non-Koreans, according to a survey released by the Gender Equality Ministry yesterday.
The results showed a marked softening in attitudes toward foreigners from a similar poll conducted last year. The survey polled 1,000 adults across the country from July 31 to Aug. 2.

The whole story on the JoongAng Ilbo site here:
http://joongangdaily.joins.com/article/view.asp?aid=2880186

[SeoulShakin]

1000 people.... out of how many million?

[ttompatz]

[Pligganease]

[Ya-ta Boy]

It might be too early to declare xenophobia dead and buried here, but the series of editorials and articles that have appeared in the media since the UN report criticizing Korea has not died away, as it easily could have.

The first step to fixing any social problem is to acknowledge the problem exists. That is the phase we are in now. Koreans that affect public discourse have taken up this issue.

Step by step. Step by step.

[dalpengi]

[Ya-ta Boy]

[SeoulShakin]

Fair enough. Admittedly, I'm not the best at stats, and hated the required classes I had to take in University.

Perhaps I'm biased of the opinions of the Koreans I personally know.

Hope I'm wrong.

[laogaiguk]

[JongnoGuru]

We here on Dave's have been pro-interracial, -international, and -interspecies marriages all along. It's nice to see Korea's catching up. BTW, I suppose this sea change in national thought, namely this relatively sudden lowering of their guard on this issue, is not entirely unrelated to local aging bachelors bringing in wives from other tribes.

Wouldn't you agree, Attila? Hey, where's that boy been the past few days? His average posting rate is drifting dangerously close to 50 per day!

[FUBAR]

Before declaring the attitudes changing, I'd like to see the survey split down a little further. Let's how the percentage Koreans feeling positive towards marrying Whites, Blacks, Asians, Lations, South Eastern Asia, etc before proclaiming any sort of attitude change.

[Cheonmunka]

And, 30% (I'm sorry what? - 3 people out of every 10 you see) hate you.

[Ya-ta Boy]

Are your shoes too tight, Jongno? You are in an unusually cynical mood tonight.

Even if it is related to the number of foreign brides for Korean farmers, it wouldn't be the first time someone made a virtue of necessity (although I'm no expert on virtue). And is that so bad? Don't look a gift horse in the mouth.

Something tells me this is the direct result of Korea's inferiority complex that produces that thirst for approval from others we've all noticed. The UN said Korea needs to get rid of its pure blood myth and the Koreans SEEM to be saying, "How fast would you like us to do it, sir?"

On a down note, I do expect a reaction to set in against all this. As much as a certain element of the posting public likes to pretend all 48 million look and think exactly alike, it just isn't true and never has been. And that's not to mention that the nationalistic pure blood garbage did serve a useful purpose. What will replace it?

[SeoulShakin]

[Cheonmunka]