WTF?

by Robert Koehler on December 11, 2007

in Asides, Stupid Foreigner Tricks

I have to agree with the Nomad — this is just terrible. I can only hope the little girl finds a loving home.

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1 mjw December 11, 2007 at 6:53 pm: Seriously WTF.

Irrespective of the cross-border jurisdictional issues, shouldn’t there be legal action taken by some prosecutor somewhere against these people?
2 Maddlew December 11, 2007 at 9:57 pm: “It’s just something we’ll have to live with.”
Actually, no. You’re choosing to put the brunt of the consequences of your mistake on that little girl. You, you weak ass son of a bitch, are bailing. Out of sight, out of mind you piece of shit.
3 WangKon936 December 12, 2007 at 2:16 am: “Mark Choi, a spokesman for the Korean Residents Association in Hong Kong, said there was a lot of anger in the Korean community as they could not understand how the family could give up the girl after seven years.”

One of these indignant Korean/Hong Kong families should stop casting stones and just go out and adopt her.
4 JW December 12, 2007 at 2:17 am: These are the times when you really want to believe that what Jesus said was true…

“whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to have a great millstone fastened round his neck and to be drowned in the depth of the sea.”
5 Maekchu December 12, 2007 at 3:16 am: What a couple pieces of shit the husband and wife are. To put any child in that kind of situation is inexcusable. At a minimum, he should lose his foreign services job as his actions totally embarrass his own government.
6 globalvillageidiot December 12, 2007 at 1:17 pm: #5 – I agree. The only upside here is the hope she will eventually be adopted by a more loving family than those sorry excuses for human beings would have offered.
7 slouching_tiger December 12, 2007 at 2:36 pm: “Mark Choi, a spokesman for the Korean Residents Association in Hong Kong, said there was a lot of anger in the Korean community as they could not understand how the family could give up the girl after seven years.”

Ha! I guess these are the same Koreans that don’t know their own country has sent more than 160,000 babies and children (not all orphans, mind you) overseas since the end of the Korean War–and is still doing it.

Oh sure they can’t understand why a foreign couple would abandon a baby after 7 years, but have a easy time understanding why Korea continues to abandon its own children and send them overseas even while it’s number 12 economy in the world.
8 Andy Jackson December 12, 2007 at 6:18 pm: Korea might be the number 12 economy, but there are still plenty of families that find themselves unable to properly take care of their children. I have seen examples (on TV) of parents who feel forces to place their children in orphanages but visit them on weekends and who hope to be able to get them back once they are in a position to do so.

The Dutch couple has no such excuse. I agree with globalvillageidiot (#6) that the only good that may come from this is that she may be able to find a more loving environment.
9 dda December 13, 2007 at 12:53 am: Hate to rehash the last few comments, but yeah, while the actions of them Dutch fuckwits is inexcusable, let’s not forget where this kid comes from, one of these orphans export companies like Holt, or why places like Holt exist.
10 WangKon936 December 14, 2007 at 4:27 pm: # 8,

Placing their own kids in an orphanage while they are very much still healthy is not just a Korean phenomenon. Many people in other countries do it. Sometimes it’s economic reasons, sometimes it’s deeply set psychological reasons.
11 WangKon936 December 14, 2007 at 4:31 pm: # 7,

I knew someone was going to mention the fact that Korea exports a lot of babies into this issue.

I for one say is a non issue entirely. There is a difference between people who give up their parentage responsibilities in the beginning of a child’s life (regardless of nationality) and those who make the committment for freak’in 7 years, then all of a sudden decide to give up.

To bring up the amount of kids Korea exports is a freak’in red herring in this particular debate.
12 Sperwer December 15, 2007 at 12:46 am: Just spent the evening with 80 children and young adults from a Korean orphanage ranging in age from about 5 to 18, most abandoned by their parents when they were old enough to be very aware of and deeply hurt by what was happening in ways that are all too obvious. A very small number of the parents still try to visit the children from time to time, but most have just despicably absconded. They and the Dutch shits should be horsewhipped.