Talk:Marriage in Korea

Vietnamese women are preferred because they look similar to Koreans and are willing to live in Korea by economic reasons.

Vietnamese people look nothing like Koreans.


 * Calmn down. Vietnamese definitely look similar to Korean (and other East Asians) than Europeans and Africans. I put "relatively" between 'look' and 'similar'. Janviermichelle 01:36, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

Getting Married in Korea: potential source
INTERNATIONAL MARRIAGE SECTION ( HUGE MISINFORMED INFORMATION) CHINESE ( PASSPORT HOLDERS MARRYING WITH KOREAN MEN) ARE MOSTLY KOREAN-CHINESE. NOT HAN CHINESE. IT SHOULD BE WRITTEN KOREAN MEN MARRY KOREAN-CHINESE WOMAN. NO SUCH THING AS HAN-CHINESE OR HAN-CHINESE WOMAN. — Preceding unsigned comment added by KoreanPenin5ulaKP (talk • contribs) 13:41, 22 December 2020 (UTC)
 * You are giving very incorrect information. [] There are far more Han Chinese women than Korean Chinese women.Bigboss9873 (talk) 12:12, 13 September 2023 (UTC)

Hi, Getting Married in Korea is the title of a book I heard about when I was taking a class from a cultural anthropologist. Maybe someone could add info from this book? Thank you. Info: --Kjoonlee 10:29, 9 October 2006 (UTC)

From the entry on age requirments, can I safely assume that the requirment of approval by both sets of parents regardless of age is strictly "Korean Drama" myth. In Korean Dramas, both the Groom and the Bride have to get permission from their respective families, even if in their thirties or forties. Before my wife and I married I remember being required to meet her immediate family. If this was only to meet the groom or some sort of secret accceptance vote, I was never told. That said, my Mother-in-Law waived any issues about her daughter marrying a white boy on grounds that my wife was thirty six at the time. unsigned comment added by 68.227.57.112 (talk)

Surname
Do Korean brides adopt their groom's surname like in Western marriages? 64.30.110.10 (talk) 05:29, 24 December 2007 (UTC)

not usually and not by law, though I have met Korean couples that use the man's last name when in other countries to avoid confusion Zhokuai (talk) 09:50, 26 December 2007 (UTC)

Section on gifts between families, etc
This reads as though it has been quickly and carelessly copypasted from a book review somewhere. I don't have the resources to correct it myself, but I think that this section might need to be referenced, or rewritten if the source can't be found. It certainly doesn't read that smoothly at the moment, at any rate. Samf-nz (talk) 06:53, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

Section on eligibility
this sounds like folklore and does not read well. in fact, it is confusing altogether. the tone is of the paragraph is not authoritative, typos excluding.

Section on modern practices
could not find more information or reference to 'paebeck'
 * here ya go - Pyebaek --Dan (talk) 21:32, 17 November 2008 (UTC)

Legalities
Are marriages recorded with some sort of government records office? Are they legal contracts? Is there a difference between a religious ceremony and a civil marriage? --Dan (talk) 20:02, 5 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Yes, when people marry, they are supposed to report it to the government. if they don't, they are not 'legally' married. Janviermichelle (talk) 03:52, 11 September 2009 (UTC)

NPOV cleanup
I've just removed these non-NPOV claims (non-academic, generalized stereotypes) from "Marriages between Koreans and non-Koreans":

"The mail order bride industry in South Korea is a corrupt industry which causes sham marriages. Most Korean men who marry Southeast Asian women end up with divorces. This is because Southeast Asian women enter South Korea purely for economic reasons in order to raise money for their families back in their homeland."

&mdash; Stevey7788 (talk) 06:24, 14 January 2013 (UTC)

Consensus for adding statistics regarding interracial marriage
Since an editor removed the statistics for interracial marriage based on "no consensus", I would like to discuss reasons for not including it since I don't see why it should be removed. 134ricks (talk) 05:18, 4 May 2016 (UTC)


 * The main reason for the removal, is that you are a block evading sockpuppet. Spacecowboy420 (talk) 14:39, 4 May 2016 (UTC)

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Marriage in Pre-Modern Korea and the Paucity of Sources on Marriage During the Koryo Period
To provide context on Korean marriage practices frior to the 20th century I am developing a section on Marriage in Pre-Modern Korea, which will consist of two primary subsections, one on marriage in the Koryo Dynasty and a second on the Choson Period. Sources are very limited for information on the Koryo Dynasty and currently this section relies entirely on citations from Martina Deuchler's book The Confucian Transformation of Korea: A Study of Society and Ideology. If you are aware of other material that can be cited confirming or disputing the content of this sub-section please contribute it. This will not be an issue for the section on the Choson Era, for which there is a broad and deep literature.--AnthAJN (talk) 18:40, 13 December 2018 (UTC)

This article should be renamed to marriage in Korea
Since it covers pre-division times. I've also added a section on marriage in North Korea to it. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; reply here 06:04, 25 May 2021 (UTC)

Split some content into Asian migrant brides in South Korea?
Asian migrant brides in Japan has its own article; right now Asian migrant brides in South Korea is just a redirect here. @Toobigtokale - what do you think? Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; reply here 02:31, 23 February 2024 (UTC)


 * While it definitely deserves its own article (very prominent phenomenon in Korea, think a huge proportion of rural marriages involve migrant brides, something like 20-40%? idr), it doesn't pass the readable prose limit for splitting criteria.
 * I'm unlikely to take this topic up. If you can find someone to expand it to pass the threshold, I encourage you to boldly make the split. However, we should wait until there's a guarantee of prompt expansion or until after the expansion is already done. toobigtokale (talk) 01:19, 24 February 2024 (UTC)