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Author’s note: this post was updated at 9:18 Korean time. Control of familial finances has changed a lot over the last few decades in Western society. Once generally the domain of men, financial decision are now usually made mutually in modern families, and in some cases both husband and wife deal with their earnings separately. Monetary control [ READ MORE ]
So you’re the bride or groom at your wedding. You’re in a big building resembling a hotel, in which five other weddings are going on and you’re singing karaoke with your newly crowned spouse to an audience of people — half of whom are barely paying attention. Synthetic smoke emits from the floor under [ READ MORE ]
Marriage in Korea is huge deal. Typically, if you’re a woman and you aren’t married by thirty, your parents will start to really worry. They will encourage you to go on blind dates to find a man. Some couples marry just a few months after meeting each other. A woman who drove my girlfriend and I [ READ MORE ]
This is a semi-update on a piece about my relationship with my Korean girlfriend and the difficulties Korean parents pose for inter-racial relationships. Go here for the background. Tomorrow is my Korean partner teacher’s wedding. Most of the Korean and foreign teachers from work will be going. I will be spending the ceremony and following [ READ MORE ]
On the 23rd of February I wrote a short article about my Korean colleague, who, after months of planning and religiously studying the English language, was being pressured not to take up the trip of a lifetime to Canada. She wanted to go to Nova Scotia for one year to further her understanding of the [ READ MORE ]
When you decide to move to Korea, Japan, or wherever the spinning of a globe may take you, just think about the consequences of your departure! Are there any? Yeah, you’ll probably wave goodbye to your family and friends, maybe even to a steady job and a long-time partner, but its not like being put [ READ MORE ]
Woo Yeong Yang never thought much about international couples before he met his Canadian girlfriend. Prior to his trip to the army a few years ago he didn’t even notice them around. “I couldn’t see any at all,” he says. “Now there are so many.” And now he is in one. Woo Yeong is leaving Korea soon [ READ MORE ]
There’s an experiment happening on Korean television these days: on a situational comedy a foreign man is living with his Korean wife’s family. The man relates with his Korean in-laws in presumably hilarious and surprising ways. Maybe this is a moot circumstance in your mind, but here it’s a noteworthy event played out for a [ READ MORE ]
In my country (or former country as things currently stand) it is becoming more common for twenty-somethings to live at home longer, mainly to avoid rent prices in the age of high student debt. Though a growing trend, it’s still a lifestyle that most people probably don’t desire. And, while it may be unjustified, it’s [ READ MORE ]