In a perfect follow-up to what reader Slim has characterized as “another example of simply crap news judgment by the Chosun, especially in a website in English for the outside world,” the Chosun attempted Thursday to explain what it is about Korean men that Japanese women just love. Highlights you ask? With pleasure:
Some Japanese media are perplexed as to why Bae has attracted middle-aged Japanese women so, calling the trend “a mysterious phenomenon.” The explanation that Bae possesses a tough yet refined charm that is hard to find in Japanese men is gaining persuasiveness, however.
Recently, the Asahi Shimbun’s weekly current events magazine AERA looked at the strong points of Korean men, like their consideration for women, the importance they place on family and their toughness owing to military duty. This contrasts strongly with the character of Japanese men, who have fully adopted Western values that emphasize “personal” space even within the family.
These strong points were highlighted thanks to Bae Yong-jun’s popularity that unfolded with the romantic love story of “Winter Sonata.”
One 32-year-old woman from Osaka who appeared in the AERA piece said, “I once got to know a Korean man when I was abroad… Korean men are romantic and straight-forward.” Other women offered similar feelings, characterizing Korean men as “passionate and warm-hearted.”
Read the rest on your own. And remember, don’t shoot the translator.
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“They say that the Japanese women who hope to marry Korean men are primarily in their early and middle 30s. An official explained that there are fewer younger women at a suitable age to marry.”
Yet the average age of first marriage for Japanese women is 27. What would Koreans say if the Japanese press reported that Korean women in their mid-30s are marrying Japanese guys like crazy?
This reminds me of my female Korean friend in LA. She married a gyopo after getting pregnant, and left him because he was resentful and physically abusive. For the longest time she made frequent comments about how “greasy”, impolite, and just generally repulsive Western guys were to her. But a couple years into the divorce, she started saying that she’d probably have to marry one because besides being a mom, she was too old at 30. “I’ll probably have to marry a white guy, because Korean guys won’t come near me.”
“This contrasts strongly with the character of Japanese men, who have fully adopted Western values that emphasize “personal” space even within the family.”
Oh the slimy tentacle of the West, how it poisons! Never will Korea succumb to such ridiculous notions as “personal space within the family”. Not with room salons, business clubs, dallan ju jeoms, and casual prostitution on every corner keeping them happy and able to focus 100% on the family waiting at home.
We’re actually going backwards aren’t we? We’re regressing. Hitler’s coming!
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I’ve met many Japanese guys in my life (no im not gay). But I would have to say that its because Japanese guys can be very snotty and arrogant. Korean guys (not including myself) seem to be far more charismatic (and far better looking) for that matter.