Reuters has an article on the problems often facing South Koreans and the foreigners who look to match-making services for brides.
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“The South Korean public is illiterate in cultural diversity, so they have to catch up and learn as soon as they can,” Kwon said.
Well said.
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Had no idea tinyurl doesn’t do instant redirection anymore for above links. If anyone knows an easy way around the link Nazi that doesn’t involve giving blumpkins, let it be known.
Imagine you go to the immigration office of your home country requesting a visa for your bride.
1. Does she speak English? No
2. Do you speak her language? No
3. When did you both meet? 2 days ago
Visa Granted!!!
What sort of sick, twisted, corrupt government issues such visas?
“What sort of sick, twisted, corrupt government issues such visas?”
The same that tolerates husbands beating wives in public, but hates white people. If she’s dark… she’s on her own.
ask these guys about how they feel about pregnant asian women and the responsibilty of their western brothers. them ,we’ll see a different song.
‘they’re just whores looking for a green card.’
‘the bitch is just trying to trap him for rights to the big px.’
’she got preg on purpose. she’s responsible!’
‘The same that tolerates husbands beating wives in public, but hates white people. If she’s dark… she’s on her own….’ same expat as the above
notice how his song changes? btw, koreans hate whites? are you sure? then, how come so many of you tell us about how half of korea wants what’s in your stinkin’ pants? don’t make sense, do it, jethro?
Blumpkin, eh? I had an acquaintance once who tricked his girlfriend into a blumpkin. She repayed the favor with interest by giving him a hot carl(ie) (sans the saran wrap). He certainly got his just deserts.
Pawi not sure if Koreans hate whites but they seem to resent Western power, influence and wealth. Korean men seem to have an inferiority complex when it comes to white men. They really seem upset when Korean females choose to be with western men. Many of these men do not seem to understand, that its rarely a racial issue, but more the manner in which a woman is treated. If these men in the article were better manner and perhaps kinder and gentler they would have better relationships with women, both Korean and foreign.
‘Korean men seem to have an inferiority complex when it comes to white men. They really seem upset when Korean females choose to be with western men.’
i agree but it ain’t no different than the problems you white men have had with black men. of course, the most glaring contrast is, korean men don’t kill you. they don’t lynch you.
and please don’t say this is all about korean men, because it’s about you too. so many of you walking around with your atttitudes and assumptions. you shouldn’t think a korean man can’t see it with that cocky walk and glare. it’s not all inferiority complex.
First, pawi racial violence against African Americans or against Africans in general was and is despicable. In Korea, there have been instances of white men attacked and yes some killed in Korea, sometimes because they were in the company of a Korean woman. One news report asked why the Korean man killed the both the white man and the Korean female, the man replied, I could not stand to see them holding hands on a hot day. Although, not a murder, one is led to recall the infamous subway incident where a drunken korean man attacked a US soldier and his Korean wife on the subway. A huge brawl ensued. The Korean press reports the man did it to defend the woman’s honor. There were protests and the man went on a hunger strike until the news finally got out that the soldier and the woman were married. That said, its been a few years since I have read any news reports about this type of behavior or outright murders. Most of the violence you talked about towards African Americans happened in a different era, with a much larger African Americans in the total population (around 12 percent). The white male population in Korea must be something less than .25 of a percent of the total population.
Back to the point, the article is about problems in international relationships with Korean men. If Korean men would improve their social skills and their treatment of women, they would do much better with the ladies. Korean men in Seoul seem to get this a lot better than their brethren in the provinces.
Yes, a very poor analogy by pawi indeed. Par for the course.
Korean men treat women just fine.
There is no need for a Korean woman to marry a white guy to get treated better or get “rescued”.
IF it’s because of love, fine.
How is it possible that this logic doesn’t work the other way around?
You know, Korean women are so abusive blah, blah, blah, so that Korean men should marry non-Korean women with chests not as flat, to liberate themselves.
white guy will always deny that he did something wrong to the black guy. That’s universal. white guy likes to think it’s all over now and cool, but the hoods say otherwise. they’re there for a reason.
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I find it ironic that someone makes an accurate statement about if Koreans had better manners and social graces, they have better relationships all around and the very next comment is from a Korean with no manners and social graces making ludicrous comparisons with the sole purpose to attack and slander. Pawi showed with his usual lack of intelligence exactly the type of behavior that commenter #8 was referring too. Classic!
wjk = the kyopo Al Sharpton
LOL. Now we have comparisons of lynchings AND OJ Simpson in comparing the attitudes of Korean men seeing Korean women with white guys. Talk about reaching for extremes. Man….you people are hilarious. This thread alone is a microcosm of the Korean male inferiority complex. I haven’t laughed this hard since season one of Chappelle Show.
I don’t have an inferiority complex. The fact that you think they feel “inferior” means, there is something WRONG with your head and how you view other races in general.
The Korean woman you bed should read about your thoughts here, and how you disparage most things about Korea and can’t wait to SKIP town. What a nice guy you are, adjusting GREAT to new environments.
say, do you think white guys in Europe are having an “inferiority complex”, when they attack East Asian guys holding hands with the local women?
oh, my God ! That’s not an inferiority complex?
I think it’s more properly called the majority population resenting their women hanging out with “foreigners”. That’s universal. Not just Korea. Subtler in America.
I have almost nothing in common with Al. I’m just pointing out what America tries to hide. Obama, though, is Al Sharpton like in his core beliefs. He just “distances himself from pastors”, when the traits are discovered, effectively saying “I’m not them.”
Funny how immigrants such as yourself suddenly become the experts on black-white relations in the US. You literally know nothing.
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You’re neither white nor black — you haven’t lived it. If I live in Korea and start lecturing Koreans about the relations among Koreans, hwagyo, and Joseonjok, people will laugh in my face.
Plus he’s simply not cogent or insightful on any of this stuff. It’s just throw onto a screen everything remotely tangential that comes to mind on a given topic and see what sticks. Little sticks.
Yeah, and if you disagree, he shouts “racist!” He’s certainly learned that tactic during his time in the U.S.
That’s one reason I call him the kyopo Rev. Al.
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Even that gives him too much credit.
All I want for Xmas is an ignore feature on this blog.
I am sorry I took a break for when I return I have to clean out troll leavings. Stay on point with coherent views else I will deleted off-topic and potentially offensive posts.
Hey, Dogbert.
Aren’t you married to a Korean woman?
(Robert, do you delete me?)
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How the hell does somebody get tricked into giving a blumpkin? First fluffers and now blumpkins and hot carls without Saran wrap. My vocabulary is so enriched by reading the comment section at this blog.
But was the guy who received the Hot Carl actually named Carl?
Enquiring minds want to know.
So, some companies allegedly encourage the guys to lie…I think the Korean government should deliver stiff fines to the men and the companies that commit this kind of fraud (remember, a marriage is first and foremost a contract.)
I heard the old hot carl myth back in the 80s, but blumpkin is a new one to me. Thanks for the chuckles, Ol’ Sparrowhawk.
#29 Sonagi, I find the urban dictionary most helpful with these terms. I must have led a sheltered life, all new to me too!
Well Maekchu let’s not criticize Pawi too much. However I don’t think Western men should be in a position to tell someone about manners. Also why do some Western men come to Korea to seek Korean women is it all love or some stereotype they have about Korean women?