Comments on: Jeeze, Inter-Korean divorce can be complicated http://www.rjkoehler.com/2003/11/12/jeeze-inter-korean-divorce-can-be-complicated/ Korea... in Blog Format Fri, 5 Dec 2008 09:42:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: oranckay http://www.rjkoehler.com/2003/11/12/jeeze-inter-korean-divorce-can-be-complicated/#comment-612 oranckay Thu, 13 Nov 2003 04:50:14 +0000 http://rjkoehler.com/?p=277#comment-612 Nice site you're recommended, Mr. Infidel. Sasilhon is sometimes called "common-law marriage." Or at least it's the other way around... "common-law marriage" in an American context is often translated into Korean as sasilhon. My advisor at Yonsei had someone on his dissertation committee decades ago who got separated from his family during the war. He looked for them for then years, then married again. The question here would be what basis he had for marrying again without divorcing, 'cause I myself don't know. Anyway, so now he's got a new wife and a kid or two, when a child from the first wife recognizes him on the street. Oooops. Appears they'd all been down South the whole time. It was a generation where wives never felt they had to have much loves for their husbands anyway, so they all agreed each wife wouldn't try to prosecute the other for adultry (a whole nother legal question, as you may know) and live in separate houses, with him going back and forth between them. Anyway, he died relatively young, and at the time people said it was because he lectured too much as he struggled to feed them all. Another interesting fact comes from when KBS did a massive live telathon to re-unite family members. I wasn't here but I think it might have been as late as the late sixties or early seventies. People would get a few seconds on television during which they'd give some clues like "Remember sister, remember the little hut by the wood next to the chickens?" and the woman he'd only known as "nuna" could then contact him later. Anyway, of all the types of relationships - parent-child, sibling, it was spousal relationships that saw the lowest reunion rate.... looks like a lot of people used the war as a perfect opprotunity to trade in for new partners. Nice site you’re recommended, Mr. Infidel.
Sasilhon is sometimes called “common-law marriage.” Or at least it’s the other way around… “common-law marriage” in an American context is often translated into Korean as sasilhon.
My advisor at Yonsei had someone on his dissertation committee decades ago who got separated from his family during the war. He looked for them for then years, then married again. The question here would be what basis he had for marrying again without divorcing, ’cause I myself don’t know. Anyway, so now he’s got a new wife and a kid or two, when a child from the first wife recognizes him on the street. Oooops. Appears they’d all been down South the whole time. It was a generation where wives never felt they had to have much loves for their husbands anyway, so they all agreed each wife wouldn’t try to prosecute the other for adultry (a whole nother legal question, as you may know) and live in separate houses, with him going back and forth between them. Anyway, he died relatively young, and at the time people said it was because he lectured too much as he struggled to feed them all.
Another interesting fact comes from when KBS did a massive live telathon to re-unite family members. I wasn’t here but I think it might have been as late as the late sixties or early seventies. People would get a few seconds on television during which they’d give some clues like “Remember sister, remember the little hut by the wood next to the chickens?” and the woman he’d only known as “nuna” could then contact him later. Anyway, of all the types of relationships - parent-child, sibling, it was spousal relationships that saw the lowest reunion rate…. looks like a lot of people used the war as a perfect opprotunity to trade in for new partners.

]]> By: Infidel http://www.rjkoehler.com/2003/11/12/jeeze-inter-korean-divorce-can-be-complicated/#comment-611 Infidel Thu, 13 Nov 2003 02:35:21 +0000 http://rjkoehler.com/?p=277#comment-611 I've referred your post to a legal forum run by an expat lawyer working on the South Korean Constitutional Court. Anyone can track responses here: <a href="http://hayeslaw.org/ipw-web/bulletin/bb/index.php" rel="nofollow">http://hayeslaw.org/ipw-web/bulletin/bb/index.php</a> I’ve referred your post to a legal forum run by an expat lawyer working on the South Korean Constitutional Court. Anyone can track responses here:

http://hayeslaw.org/ipw-web/bulletin/bb/index.php

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