Marriages with foreigners soar in Korea

[unreal.livejournal.com]

One out of every 10 South Korean men and women gets married with a foreigner, with Chinese and Vietnamese brides being the most popular, according to data released Sunday.

Statistics Korea said 33,300 South Koreans tied the knot with foreigners in 2009 alone, accounting for 10.8 percent of all marriages here. It marks a big increase from 4,710, or 1.2 percent, in 1990 but a decline from 42,356, or 13.5 percent, in 2005.

In particular, 11,364 South Korean men wedded Chinese women and 7,249 others married Vietnamese women in 2009, the agency said.

The number of Filipino brides stood at 1,643, followed by Japan with 1,140, Cambodia with 851, Thailand with 496, the United States with 416, Mongolia with 386, Uzbekistan with 365 and Nepal with 316, it noted.

Source: koreatimes>

Comments

[twofordinner.livejournal.com]

so how many comments are going to be

"brb flying over to marry bias"

[complexflowers.livejournal.com]

Nearly the whole post if they aren't too insulted by the one below you thar.

[taecish.livejournal.com]

in before excited fat white girls

[skrillex.livejournal.com]

SPAT OUT MY DRINK

[koushiba.livejournal.com]

ngl Uzbekistan with 365 caught me by surprise but thats good ^^ I love interracial couples <3

[angelkitti.livejournal.com]

hot babies.

[omgcats.livejournal.com]

Uzbekistan? That's interesting.

[cookiedealer.livejournal.com]

of course, globalization and all that

[brailleun.livejournal.com]

With these country names (minus Japan&USA) I can only think about some kind of catalog-order-wives :|. And why they only talk about brides here? Which nationalities the women marry?

/random jetlagged comment without any though.

[strawberry-efeu.livejournal.com]

There are more males than females in Korean plus women are getting married later because they want to be independent. Thus, men are looking for women in other places.

[brianathebard.livejournal.com]

Has anybody ever seen the show "Love In Asia" on KBS World? My parents just switched to directv so we don't get it anymore ;_; but I loved that show~

[complexflowers.livejournal.com]

Yes I think...
wait was it about int'l couples? Cause all I remember is Hope To The World Love Relay and that's charity in other countries...

but what about the ladies

[k0dama.livejournal.com]

.. but there's nothing about ladies choosing foreign husbands?


Or is it the years and years of female-fetus abortions or something making it actually not at all necessary for Korean women to choose foreigner husbands?

Re: but what about the ladies

[a-perfect-shade.livejournal.com]

they all get shipped off to china and uzbekistan

[nightfrost75.livejournal.com]

I'm sure Victoria, Jia and Fei are pleased with this.:P

[gyuri.livejournal.com]

And Zhang Liyin

[lilipute.livejournal.com]

(http://es.tinypic.com?ref=oqbx3k)

call me when there's a black country on that list

[melonfucka.livejournal.com]

lol omg

[eotfofyl.livejournal.com]

Alt, Incidence of mail-order brides increasing in SK.

[umbrella-smile.livejournal.com]

Uzbekistan
Well that came out of left field.

[tribuo-venerati.livejournal.com]

Actually, a lot of Central Asian people immigrate to South Korea. Also, there's a substantial number of ethnic Koreans who live there :] I've met a few Uzbekistani-Koreans.

[aj-123.livejournal.com]

So does this mean Junsu is a definite canidate? Cuz I believe he's down with the swirl.
I need them to get some sistas in the mix.

[complexflowers.livejournal.com]

TANISU!

[jonghyunf.livejournal.com]

wow everybody in here is so rude

[umbrella-smile.livejournal.com]

It's omona, you expected people here to have class?

[nice-vibe.livejournal.com]

what is this post

Re: this post

[complexflowers.livejournal.com]

CRAY EYE. \O/

[desty-chan.livejournal.com]

[soheefan.livejournal.com]

What about the guys that want to hook up with a korean girl?? I want to see the statistics for that

[obeytheempress.livejournal.com]

I realize you folks are "joking" but I'm kinda disappointed by the fat-shaming and derailing in this post.

[baboboy.livejournal.com]

THIS

[imyoona.livejournal.com]

Damn, I can't believe I missed this

[soribreak.livejournal.com]

I was wondering why this post had so many comments

[xcherryblossomx.livejournal.com]

because there is some fat-wank going on... does this means we have a lot of skinny bitches in this post?

[theycallmeriz.livejournal.com]

TOP said his perfect girl was Beyonce right?
if those two had babies, they would be beautiful.

uzbekistanwot?

[obeytheempress.livejournal.com]

hahah maybe he can get with solange, since b is taken~

/some witty snarky comment

[unsospiro.livejournal.com]

Re: /some witty snarky comment

[soribreak.livejournal.com]