Notes to readers from Pakistan and certain US states: if you’re married to your first cousin, forget about getting a spousal visa in Korea. For fun facts on cousin couples, see here.
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“not legally binding”…according to Korean law. They are legally married in their home country.
I just wonder how Immigration knows they are cousins… it seems to me that unless a family history accompanies your marriage certificate, no stranger would know…
#2: Korean immigration has access to the LDS genealogy databases — it’s a global Korean-Mormon conspiracy to ensure that foreign passport-holder with names on family registers serve in the military and to ensure that first cousins don’t marry.
Or the guy’s just a bit too chatty with immigration. Take your pick. “Where did you meet your wife?” “Oh, we grew up together — she was my cousin.”
This guy’s marriage is not legally binding, but Harisu’s is?
HARISU IS A WOMAN! Repeat until you believe.
I got a kick out of this line:
When did Korea join “the West”? It is the Korean government that blocked the wife’s visa, and Korea’s marriage laws have always been far more stringent than those of Europe, North America, or Oceania. Is the writer an FOB ignorant of this fact?
Unless it’s changed recently, I thought it was only marriages along the patriliner line that are unallowed here, not the matrilinear. So you can knock yourself out marrying your mother’s siblings’ offspring, but can’t marry someone descended from your great-to-the-tenth grandfather (i.e. someone from your clan). This guy fails because it was through his father’s side.
Regardless, the fact that they won’t accept a marriage legal in another country is obviously not going to help the hub plan too much, that and the new banking restrictions on foreigners so aptly slammed in today’s Wall St. Journal.
However, I’d still like to know how they found out. Zonath–You are joking in #3, right?
I was joking about the conspiracy, not about the chattiness.
Thought so, but wasn’t 100% sure on that.
#5 HARISU IS A WOMAN!
masturbation reinforces belief in that statement as well …
cousin couples should STAY unwelcome in Korea.
Korea, like Vietnam, has this strange phenomenon, where the supposed pure bred King family line last name is present in 75% of the population.
Park, Kim, Lee.
So many, many, many fake Park, Kim, and Lees.
The least thing the govt can do to prevent inbreeding is to prevent established paternal first cousins from marrying each other.
It’s such as weird result. Lots of liers, no doubt, most definitely.
“I just wonder how Immigration knows they are cousins…”
Good question. I also also wonder why they think it is relevant, especially considering there are no Koreans involved in the marriage.
“So many, many, many fake Park, Kim, and Lees.”
If I had a nickel for each time somebody here claimed to me that they were of “yangban” stock - in many cases, an actual Andong Kim - I could retire!
#10 Insert violent shiver here.