From Katz:
I totally disagree with international marriages. If I was president I would destroy the Union Church who is promoting this and disincourage international marriages as possible as I could. Just because your countries are multiracial that doesn’t mean that my country also has to become one. It is as if a disgraced guy tried to induce others who are better than him to disgrace just because he is disgraced, which is revolting.

To Katz:
I gues I’m disgraced, because my gal is Thai, and she is doubly disgraced because she married me and because her mother was Thai and her father was Chinese. But then again, her mother was disgraced because she was mixed, too.

How about this for a solution: don’t tell other Koreans whom they should marry. Let the individual choose. You are neither their god nor their emporer.

People like you meet us on the street every day and assume my wife is a Korean who married a foreigner, then shun us (or worse), without ever learning about who we are. Mild nationalism is fine — wild nationalism which shuts down logical thinking is right up their with radical fundamentalist religion as damaging to society, but I still won’t prohibit you from it or return the inslt you laid at my feet, just suggest you change to a more moderate viewpoint which allows the other people who live in your country to follow their hearts.

Typical hypocritical and racist Korean.

Keep it coming.

I am very happy to see more and more foreigners and interracial (or international) couples in Korea. But reading some news pieces and netizens?? reaction to the international marriage from a Korean portal site, I have to raise a little concern. It seems to me that some Korean guys (who are looking for foreign wives) are not well bred. In other words, they couldn??t get Korean women by any means, so they are looking for somewhere else. Getting laid is the biggest goal in their marriages. Some netizens suggest that Vietnamese women are the best because they tend to be virgin and respect men and follow old-fashioned (Korean) practice of male-preference (????????????????). Give me a break! Vietnamese women are amazing and absolutely beautiful inside and out. The women should know what they??d get themselves into by getting married to the Korean men. Anyway, choice should be made by each individual woman, and I am sure that good Korean men are looking for foreign wives too. The best of luck for all!

Well, I have some stats and it seems that it is not quite the case. Marriages with Chinese citizens, who are overwhelmingly (but not exlusively!) kyopo constitutre about half of all mixed marriages, and 72.4% of all marriages between Korean males and foreign females. Then 9.6% of foreign brides are Vietnamese, slightly smaller number are Filippinas. In both cases, they are not kyopo, since neither country has an established Korean community. Hence, at least 20% (more likely, 30-35%) of foreign brides are not kypo. Yesterday I went to Imigration to renew my re-entry permit, and was surprised to see a huge collection of foreign wives of all types.

As far as that being amazing for such a racist society, I agree,

Korea is still more racist than the average Western country, but it is becoming less and less racist over the years. Situation is improving. The 386ers might be crazy nationalists with rather stupid ideas about the North and the world in general, but they are far more open-minded than the average Korean of their parents’ generation (I mean average, not a SNU or Harvard graduate). And all these foreign brides, including kypo, might make difference, too.