Paris Hilton is a celebrity.

These people are random unknown white guys. Perhaps I should go to Korea, I can be as famous as Paris Hilton too!

Korea is 1.5 times the size of Canada (regarding the size of the population - and that’s what matters).

Most people aren’t dumb enough to belive the idiots don’t represent “all white wayguks”.

IMKO(in my korean opinion),even if this stupidity was done by Koreans it would still be news.

#92 “Korean media to grow up and stop trying to pass off garbage as “news.”

I currently reside in Toronto, and I could see this kind would be on local news for sure. Korea is relatively small and anything like this can be on national television.

In the early 1960, well before my birth in 1965, a Hong Kong movie hit the screens, telling a (very chaste) love story between a British man and a Chinese lady during the time of the Japanese occupation of HK. There was, according to the standards of the time, no happy ending - the war forced the lovers apart.

The movie was titled “Love is a many-splendoured thing.”

Finally this movie also hit the screens in Germany, of course in a dubbed version. The title had been translated incorrectly, yet quite aptly, into something in the following vein “Love means different thing to different people.”

Very succinct, isn’t it ?

It may have become a little bit easier by now in Korea to climb the ladder, but I very much doubt whether there is now suddenly a plethora of possibilities for upward mobility.

Why is there so much prostitution in the ROK ? The women do not do it for fun - they are poor, man, they are dirt poor.

Now, so as to avoid misunderstandings, I want to clarify that I’m not saying that poverty automatically leads to prostitution. I am merely saying that a high incidence of prostitution is usually indicative for a lack of upward mobility perspectives for females…

BTW, things are not much better in my home country of Germany . Sociological studies show that those raised by poor and uneducated parents (natural or adoptive) are, in their vast majority, going to end up poor and uneducated. There are exceptions, of course, but these are few and far between.

And, what is even more worrying, the gap between the “establishment” and the “underclass” (official German government terminology) seems to widen year by year…

I know that things are somewhat better in the US and in Canada, which is one of the reasons why I like these countries better than Germany…

A whole lot of German women in the countryside areas around the US bases are constantly on the prowl for GIs, so as to be able to escape from the poverty and the lack of perspectives they are faced with here.

And who am I to blame them ?

And what are the underclass me doing ? They are drowning their frustrations in huge quantities of alcohol.

“A small farmer’s daughter in the US or Canada may well be able to climb the social ladder; for a small farmer’s daughter in Germany the way up is considerably harder; for a small farmer’s daughter in Korea upward mobility is well-nigh impossible. Or so it seems to me.”

Huh? I do believe you should update your picture which your drew Korean Society from your wife’s experiences.

You guys are delusional.

It’s summertime. Take a vacation.