Marco, “I will be changing nationality next year”

[-ochre.livejournal.com]

Marco, already popular in Korea from the many shows and programs, is setting out to officially change his country status.

Marco had stated that he will be changing his official nationality to Korea in a recent interview with IS Daily Sports. He also revealed that he had tried doing this 3 years ago, but was denied because he didn’t fulfill the residency time period then. Now, 3 years later, he is trying to change his nationality once again.

Currently, Marco’s citizenship is set on Argentina. His Argentinian name is Lee Marcos Benjamin, and since his mother had her citizenship in Argentina, as soon as he was born, his citizenship was also automatically set to Argentina. In 1999, when Marco first stepped on Korea, he said “My brother and sister is married and living in Argentina. I want to live as a Korean.”

He even added his love life into the mix by saying, “I will marry in Korea as well. If I met someone I wanted to marry, then I could marry right now. I want to live with someone I fall in love with just by eye contact.”

Source: sookyeong

Comments

[pivotandsway.livejournal.com]

apparently, if you have Korean blood and you enter SK you can be drafted into the military (even if you don't have SK nationality in some cases). I think currently multi/biracial people are exempt from military service but some are working to change that.

[analapana83.livejournal.com]

Ok then.

[prettyminstrel.livejournal.com]

lol i read it as "Lee Macros*

[xperfect-lines.livejournal.com]

Who is he? Hahahaha he looks hot 8D

[iluvkidnappers.livejournal.com]

he was also in after school's first music video, "AH"

[teliaia.livejournal.com]

Don't do it Marco once you become a citizen they'll suck that crazy individuality you got going on right out of you

[lotsoflov-e.livejournal.com]

I want to live with someone I fall in love with just by eye contact.”

i read that and immediately thought of leeteuk lol

[djlancerock.livejournal.com]

maybe they should date

[x3eviie.livejournal.com]

HAHA, Marco! I love him.. he always made me laugh on WGM. Son Dambi and him were just <3 and his fail!korean always made me laugh.

[guu-dammit.livejournal.com]

boooooooooooo!

but I still love him ♥

[angelonair.livejournal.com]

Aaah, seeing his face makes me want to go rewatch some WGM episodes. ^_^

[vanilla-09.livejournal.com]

Is he half Argentinian, half Korean? IDK I'm confused

[xradiostatic.livejournal.com]

he's full korean but was born in argentina.

[pretzel-knot.livejournal.com]

LOL why do all these celebs have such idealistic notions of love?? falling in love with just by eye contact?! dude, you've been watching too many kdramas.

[smilez4you.livejournal.com]

lol seriously

[rockthecliche.livejournal.com]

good on him, but here's hoping he doesn't regret it in the future. :3

[rainysakura.livejournal.com]

omg i love him sooo much lol. one thing i like about him is, even though he looks all manly but he's very young and childish at heart xD it makes him so cute :P

so he's going to be a 'true' Korean, i respect his decision!

[miyavi-type.livejournal.com]

???Uh, best luck to ya?

[nene718.livejournal.com]

He was hot, but so immature and obnoxious at times on WGM.

And I'm tired of this "love at first sight" obsession.

Best of luck to him.

[xradiostatic.livejournal.com]

marcooooo ♥
but what's with him and all these other people with these drama-like ideals of love? :/

[black-silver.livejournal.com]

I want to live with someone I fall in love with just by eye contact.

i really want to smack people who think like this with a bag of sand

except for Leeteuk, i'll be nice to Leeteuk

but >(

[maisoui.livejournal.com]

i really want to smack people who think like this with a bag of sand
Visualizing this is so funny. XD

o hey thur

[black-silver.livejournal.com]

ahaha! well i didn't want to hurt anyone! :P

[turdferguson.livejournal.com]

heyyyyyy i saw him on KBS world tv at my friend's house on thanksgiving, and here i am reading about him.

[loveisdesire.livejournal.com]

but.... what if he falls in love with an Argentinian and she wanted to live in Argentina?

[florzhia.livejournal.com]

Well... I don't like this. First because i m an argentinian and second because... i felt like he is denying his argentinian roots. But, if he choose to do that... it's ok, because after all, is his life.

[gunsandsmoke.livejournal.com]

ah well that makes it sound so bad! i don't see it that way- i would if he was half-argentinean, but he's full-korean, it's just where he was born. and his parents are definitely immigrants and therefore probably much more korean in cultural/traditional thinking. he probably like argentina well enough, but is more comfortable in korea (though his brother and sister apparently had no trouble in adjusting, so idk, he kind of sounds like a tool in this very brief article regardless of whatever i think)

i think your comment is a struggle much more common/prevalent in korean-americans (feeling like you're denying one over the other) but then again i don't know anything about argentina, i do know it's very multicultural and there's hella japanese and koreans who live there, but still not a fully "multicultural" society like america/britain? idk idk

[maisoui.livejournal.com]

IDK, it still doesn't change where he's grown up; does race ultimately decide where your actually 'from'?

[gunsandsmoke.livejournal.com]

it might if you always feel like an outsider in the country you are born in and supposed to be part of as a citizen

not that i'm talking at all like i know what his life was like in argentina lol. these are all just guesses/half-assumptions

[maisoui.livejournal.com]

True, true.

[cindel.livejournal.com]

Now that you announced it to the press, you better do it.

You don't want get ban from Korea.

[shuyanland.livejournal.com]

marry dambi! ^^

[tribuo-venerati.livejournal.com]

He's an Argentine-born Korean model. He was "married" to Son Dambi on WGM. I didn't know who he was either until I watched the show. He's a big doooork!

[ellystage.livejournal.com]

Marco is sooo precious.

[cryssybloom.livejournal.com]

AHAHA! Poor guy.. I loved him in 'We Got Married' when he was "married" to Son Dambi~ I thought they were cute together.