With the growing number of foreign brides in South Korea – and the rising number of unhappy marriages – South Korean men marrying foreign women now have to take a class to prepare themselves.I am wondering -- does their textbook have a chapter on how to treat an American woman? What could they possibly say to prepare a man?
Monday, October 17, 2011
Korean men must take classes
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There's nothing they could say. American women, for the most part, know it all. They know more than their mothers! Don't bother pointing out to a New American woman a way that might make her live easier. She won't want to hear it. She knows better than anyone how to do everything, especially another New American woman or her mother-in-law.
Wow. I'm guessing you and the above comment-er are men. Women should know more than their mothers', shouldn't they? Aren't we all being raised in hopes to be a more perfect people than the generation before? Maybe not. I love the harshness you men hold toward American women, like myself though. Must have been humiliating meeting a woman of greater intelligence, eh?
Oh and I forgot to add - you both sound very bitter. I'm assuming you both got married - and divorced - to American women. You men need to catch up with the 21st century.
Yes, I was married to an American woman. I was just wondering what the Korean textbook says. It appears that everyone says that the women already think that they know it all. The Koreans do not have a course for the women.
Let's not forget that Bret Johnson only makes fathers take parenting classes, not the mothers.
It's funny, this point you guys are trying to make. For one thing... they're making the men take classes, not the women, so it's the men who need teaching. Secondly, the reason most of these marriages aren't working out is because 1) they aren't marrying for love, and 2) it's young women marrying old, icky men for the mere reason that they're trying to escape death by poverty. I mean come on, how great can a marriage like that be, anyway? I mean, seriously, what kind of moot point are you trying to make, anyway? It doesn't even make sense. Research shit before you start making baseless statements or arguments. Here is a link so that you men can see this issue from some womens' point of view.
http://www.lifeinkorea.com/boards/read.cfm?BoardID=19&MsgID=2558
Like the first woman says, the culture in Korea is much different from the US. In the US, most men are expected to be feminist and treat women with the same respect they'd treat a man. But in Korea, a woman is subordinate to a man. She must be submissive and servant-like. If you're expecting all women to be that way, you've got another thing coming. I find it very sad that you men seem to share a fear of treating women like equals.
If marriage in Korea is so bad, shouldn't the education be for the non-Koreans who go there to get married?
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