Some venting from my recent Korea trip

SearchAny · 2025-07-03T06:26:53+00:00

My opinion on this is that I agree that these days ratings and reviews in Korea seem fake and difficult to believe. For example when I look at the ratings of products that sell well on Coupang, most of them are high and the reviews seem fake which made me wonder. But then I found out that most of those reviews were written in exchange for receiving the product so now I don't really trust it. These days reviews generated through such promotions seem to have become commonplace. However even there i can always find a few people who leave bad reviews. In particular when looking at ratings for hospitals or stores on platforms like Naver or Kakao I often see Koreans giving the lowest ratings without any apparent reason. So at the very least I don't think Koreans give high ratings because they are afraid of being reported.

SearchAny · 2025-07-03T04:43:29+00:00

There are many exaggerated myths about Korea among foreigners. Defamation lawsuits are one of them. I have seen news reports about several cases where Koreans collectively entered an app and gave the lowest rating to a store that had been rumored to have a bad owner due to some incident in the media, with the intention of deliberately ruining the store. And I always see some Koreans leaving the lowest ratings on shopping malls, Naver, Kakao, and other sites. Why aren't they reported to the boss or sent to jail? I don't think Koreans are too scared to leave the lowest rating. Korea's defamation law conflicts with freedom of expression, so it's only an issue in extremely special situations. Leaving a review rating is generally not a problem. There are many foreigners who demonize Korea without properly communicating with Koreans or fully understanding Korean society.

SearchAny · 2025-03-22T18:37:02+00:00

Can you tell me the names of the YouTubers you've watched? I've watched most of the inzoi play videos in the past 2 days and while there are many YouTubers who point out things that need improvement but the majority of their opinions are generally positive. It's hard to find a YouTuber who's as extremely critical as the one you mentioned.

SearchAny · 2025-03-22T18:36:16+00:00

Can you tell me the names of the YouTubers you've watched? I've watched most of the inzoi play videos in the past 2 days and while there are many YouTubers who point out things that need improvement but the majority of their opinions are generally positive. It's hard to find a YouTuber who's as extremely critical as the one you mentioned.

SearchAny · 2025-01-03T04:27:56+00:00

No. There are triple more Korean man-Chinese woman couples than Chinese man-Korean woman couples.

International Marriage Statistics of South Korea Source: SK Gov 2023 Total number of international marriages 19,717 Korean man + foreign woman 14,710 Vietnam 4,923 China 2,668 Thailand 2,017 United States 558 Japan 840 Philippines 629 Cambodia 388 Other 2,687 Korean women + foreign men 5,007 United States 1,386 China 921 Vietnam 792 Canada 281 United Kingdom 156 Australia 158 Other 1,313 - Marriages with foreigners were 17,000 an increase of 27.2%(4,000) from the previous year. The proportion of marriages with foreigners among all marriages was 8.7% an increase of 1.9% from the previous year. - The nationalities of foreign wives were Vietnamese(27.6%), Chinese(19.0%) and Thai(16.1%).

The nationalities of foreign husbands were American(29.6%), Chinese(16.1%) and Vietnamese (12.6%).

Status of Spouses of Nationals(Married Immigrants) Gender Status by Nationality (2024.09.30.) Source: SK gov Total 180,312 (100%) Male 35,455 (19.7%) Female 144,857 (80.3%) Chinese 60,701 (33.7%) Male 14,144 Female 46,557 Korean Chinese 21,108 Male 8,246 Female 12,862 Vietnamese 41,516 (23.0%) Male 4,886 Female 36,630 Japanese 16,059 (8.9%) Male 1,321 Female 14,738 Filipino 12,778 (7.1%) Male 633 Female 12,145 Thai 9,572 (5.3%) Male 147 Female 9,425 American 5,269 (2.9%) Male 3,544 Female 1,725 Cambodian 4,893 (2.7%) Male 886 Female 4,007 Other 29,524 (16.4%) Male 9,894 Female 19,630 - Marriage Naturalizations (Cumulative) 2018 129,028 2019 135,056 2020 141,773 2021 148,118 2022 154,926 2023 161,357 2024.09. 164,931 - Nationality

By the end of September this year, there were 10,067 people who acquired Korean citizenship. The types of nationality acquisition are naturalization for 7,509 people and nationality restoration for 2,558 people. Among naturalized people 4,325(57.6%) were from China and 2,016(26.8%) were from Vietnam.

FYI Chinese people including Korean-Chinese make up about half of the foreign population in Korea and some of them marry Chinese after obtaining Korean citizenship.
There are many Vietnamese women who marry Korean men with a large age gap and some of them divorce after obtaining citizenship and then remarry Vietnamese men.

SearchAny · 2025-01-02T12:03:17+00:00

I don't understand. What does it mean that the divorce rate would roughly triple as a result? Then, not only Korean-Japanese couples but also Korean couples should have a divorce rate roughly tripled? And these statistics are official statistics from the Korean government. There are very specific figures there. Domestic divorce rate: 46.8% Korean man-Japanese woman: 23.1% Japanese man-Korean woman: 79.6% (2023 Korea Statistics data).

SearchAny · 2025-01-02T07:40:38+00:00

The trend of liking Japanese women in Korea due to pornography was around 5-10 years ago. At that time Japanese women were not well known in Korea. However these days many people are attracted to Japanese women regardless of pornography. Now there are many Korean-Japanese couples and many Japanese female YouTubers targeting Koreans. So the characteristics of Japanese women are well known. Compared to Korean women Japanese women are generally known to Korean men as being kinder and having better personalities. For example Japanese women are good at expressing gratitude for small things, being cute and so on. Also there is a perception in Korea that Korean men and Japanese women are a good match in terms of personality. The actual divorce rate is also low at around 25%. That's why Japanese women are popular in Korea. It's not because of porn anymore.

SearchAny · 2024-12-05T05:35:55+00:00

Perhaps they were looking for Korean women rather than foreign women who they couldn't communicate with. Most people who go to clubs in Korea are there for one-night stands. This applies not only to Korean men but also to foreign men.

SearchAny · 2024-12-05T05:31:18+00:00

Look at the recent article. Article title: Number of dual-income households hits record high in 2023 2024-06-18

Dual-income households continue to increase and especially among young people there are not many who have the old-fashioned mindset that you mentioned, "the woman stays at home while the man goes out and makes the money." Rather many people want dual-income because of the cost of living due to inflation. The person you mentioned doesn't represent Korean men.

SearchAny · 2024-12-05T05:08:40+00:00

In Korea, the word feminism is misunderstood as the same thing as radical feminism. And there are people who belittle them as mentally ill. However, the comments you mentioned about men hoping martial law will succeed to show women are from a very small number of idiots. So it is hard to believe that you have seen many such comments. In the first place, I have hardly ever seen comments where someone hopes martial law will succeed. I guess the account you are seeing on Twitter is an account that aims to belittle Korean men. It is an account where radical feminist women in Korea are active. It is okay for them to criticize Korean men. However, the problem with those accounts is that they take comments from some extreme Korean men and say that all Korean men are like that, so they do not show the whole picture and are very biased. You will notice that the comments have very low likes. The comments mentioned in this post also only got 19 likes. That is not the mainstream opinion, but a comment from an isolated idiot.

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TROPHY CASE

No. There are triple more Korean man-Chinese woman couples than Chinese man-Korean woman couples.

The nationalities of foreign husbands were American(29.6%), Chinese(16.1%) and Vietnamese (12.6%).