[KS] multiracialism/some random statistics

[Cedar Bough Saeji]

When discussing international marriages in Korea the media tends to make it
sound drastic by quoting statistics from the most extreme areas, like
Boeun.  There are other counties with little or no international marriages
at all, and equivalent populations.

"At the county level, Boeun county in North Chungcheong province topped the
list of inter-national marriages; 82 ouf the 205 marriages registered last
year, about 40 percent, were international marriages.  The proportion was
only 20 percent in 2003 and rose to 28 percent in 2004." (Joongang Daily
4/7/06 pg. 1)

*Gender and International marriages:*
2003:
Korean men and foreign women= 19,214 marriages
Korean women and foreign men= 6,444 marriages

For as long as I've been in Korea the women have tended to marry people from
more economically powerful countries, like the US and Japan, and the men,
from less, like China and SE Asia.

*Origins of Foreign Wives: *
2004:
Japan- 1,224
US- 344
China- 18,527
Philippines- 964
Vietnam- 2,462
Thailand- 326
Russia- 318
Mongolia- 504
Others- 925

Sorry, can't find the statistics for Foreign Husbands right now.
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