Well, if it’s in the WaiWai, it must be true!
“There are loads of cases where second- or third-generation Korean residents of Japan actually visit Korea and realize just how much different they are to the people actually living there. Many of these people decide they’d be better off living as a Japanese. And now, that feeling has grown to encompass even the idea of marriage, sparking a slew of unions between Japanese guys and women of Korean heritage who were born and bred in Japan,” Takushoku University professor O Seon Hwa tells Flash (5/30).
The humanity!
Japan is home to hundreds of thousands of Koreans universally referred to as “Zainichi,” which literally means “in Japan.”
Most of Japan’s roughly 450,000 Zainichi have never been to the Land of Morning Calm, don’t speak Korean, yet are fiercely proud of their roots and find the idea of taking out citizenship close on unthinkable.
But, as O tells the men’s weekly as part of its special feature on the sex lives of Zainichi women, things are changing pretty quickly.
Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare statistics show that since 1985 — the year it no longer became obligatory for foreign women to change citizenship if marrying a Japanese man — inter-marriages between Japanese guys and Zainichi gals have skyrocketed. In 2004, 87.2 percent of all Zainichi marriages were to Japanese partners.
Quickly! Someone get my pills!
But alas, dear Japanese readers, be warned that Zainichi women don’t put out easily:
South Korea is known for its strong Confucian values, as well as for clearly placing men above women. Many Korean men insist on checking whether a woman is a virgin before they decide to marry. South Korean women joining the military even have their virginity checked, according to the weekly.
“Even in South Korea it’s now common for couples to live together before they marry, but parents still insist the couple refrain from sex until they have actually tied the knot. That’s how important they regard virginity. Virginity is given far greater importance than beauty. Hymen restoration operations are wildly popular,” O tells Flash. “Many South Korean women who come to work in the hostessing business in Japan often brag about how they don’t give themselves away too easily.”
OK, pure bullshit. But it’s entertaining bullshit.
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Without :ahem: blowing his cover…
Joe at MutantFrog.com can tell you far different about “putting out” of Zainichi girls…
I’m almost afraid to ask…
I kind of wonder over the amount of attention that is paid to the (probably largely fictional) chaste mores of the Zainichi female population… Does it speak louder about the common perception of Zainichi women in Japanese society, or that of Japanese women in that same society? It’s kind of amusing that the Japanese media would imply that Japanese women are ’sluts’ by making a big deal over the Zainichi womens’ chastity (implying that it’s unusual).
On the other hand, I wonder how the Zainichi men are making out (so to speak). Is this one of those ‘the grass is greener’ things?
Joe at MutantFrog.com can tell you far different about “putting out” of Zainichi girls…
I’m almost afraid to ask…
I am totally curious
Zonath—I’m not sure about the Zainichi, but over here, we keep on hearing how Korean-born Korean men are doing OK for themselves in Japan thanks to Bae Yong-jun and the Korean Wave.
Back in my university days in America and England, if a Japanese man was found to be romantically involved with a Korean woman, the Japanese dude would have the living shit kicked out of him by a fairly large group of Korean men. Then, one of the Korean men from the posse would call the Korean woman’s parents to let them know about their daughter’s actions.
Doing OK with other men? ….. how Korean-born Korean men are doing OK for themselves in Japan thanks to Bae Yong-jun
“if a Japanese man was found to be romantically involved with a Korean woman, the Japanese dude would have the living shit kicked out of him by a fairly large group of Korean men.”
I’m not sure where all these Korean men are, but I’ve seen enough of them tryin to throw down here in Korea and I’m not buyin that they kicked anything out of anyone…
I liked the whole ‘call the parents’ thing, too. Very imaginative. It’s hard to believe some girl is going to cough up her parents’ phone number to the group of guys who just beat up her boyfriend. Unless, of course, they’re beating her up for the number, as well. Of course, maybe attitudes have changed since the stone age.
I’ve heard of Cultural Revolution style struggle and denunciation sessions among S.Korean students in China when females have the temerity to date outside the tribe.
I know from experience that zainichi parents can be awfully conservative when it comes to their children’s dating and mating, but it is my experience that younger folks, born say, after the 1960s, aren’t much different from their Japanese peers in outlook and attitude. I’m talking about the ones with (or formerly with) ROK passports, not the zainichi Norkers.
Nothing new here. The Zainichi outmarriage rate in both men and women means that unless ‘Zainichi’ will not exist in about a 100 years, if more immigrants from Korea do not go to Japan.
For shame, Curzon! What happens in Roppongi stays in Roppongi!
But now that you’ve brought it into the open, I have to admit, she put on a nice chaste facade…
Me: “If your friend is going home, why don’t we head to my place?”
Her: “What are we going to do there?”
Me: “We don’t have to do anything. We can watch Memoirs of a Geisha for all I care.”
[sitting on the bed]
Her: “So now I’m sitting on your bed.”
Me: “Yes you are.”
Her: “So what do you want to do?!”
Me: “Well, for now, can I get a kiss?”
[several hours and four orgasms later]
Her: “You know, I never got your name.”
Me: “Junichiro Koizumi.”
” Back in my university days in America and England, if a Japanese man was found to be romantically involved with a Korean woman, the Japanese dude would have the living shit kicked out of him by a fairly large group of Korean men. Then, one of the Korean men from the posse would call the Korean woman’s parents to let them know about their daughter’s actions.”
Hey, that sounds exactly like the story I heard from this redneck in the Ku Klux Klan who was so proud in telling everyone how his good ol mama and papa would teach their young ‘uns to act in case any of them saw a black man with a white woman. Good to see that Koreans have so much in common with toothless, possum-eating, low IQ-having imbred hicks. Koreans must be very proud of that!
“Back in my university days in America and England, if a Japanese man was found to be romantically involved with a Korean woman, the Japanese dude would have the living shit kicked out of him by a fairly large group of Korean men. Then, one of the Korean men from the posse would call the Korean woman’s parents to let them know about their daughter’s actions.”
Another variant—a Korean colleague here and her Chinese boyfriend were having an affair a couple of years ago, and were found out by her family. Mum, brother and sister duly beat her with their shoes until they tired. And then went to bed.
She took photos at the hospital the next day just in case the situation escalated.
Fortunately, she chose to drop the boyfriend and is now finishing her studies peacefully. She’s a singer.
I love Japanese AV actresses.