Some interesting statistics about korean and interracial marriage...
54.2% of Koreans Positive About Interracial Marriages
http://times.hankooki.com/lpage/200604/ ... 253460.htm
More than half of Koreans are willing to get married to foreigners, showing a change in perception toward international marriages, according to a survey.
The survey came as Korean-American football hero Hines Ward drew public attention to biracial people during his stay in Korea.
Bien-Aller, a Seoul-based matchmaking company, conducted the survey looking at 580 single women and men about interracial marriages via the Internet on April 3-10.
In the survey, 54.2 percent of men replied that they are positive about having foreign spouses, while 52.9 percent of women said that they would marry foreigners.
Those respondents who were in favor of interracial marriages pointed out that non-Korean spouses would enrich their lives and were expected to be more committed to their spouses _ the biggest benefit of all.
However, the findings show that Korean women have a preference for white men over other races, with 62.1 percent choosing a preference for natives of the U.S. or European countries.
Meanwhile, 73.4 percent of Korean men answered that they prefer Asian spouses who have something in common in terms of race and culture.
According to the survey, 21.6 percent of men answered that they would hesitate in marrying a non-Korean women due to differences in ways of thinking.
Meanwhile, 21.9 percent of women said that they would be reluctant to marry a foreigner because they don't want to have mixed-blood children.
``It is true that the perception toward interracial marriages is becoming positive, compared to the past, especially as Ward is emerging as a national icon for Koreans,'' Choi Seul-ki, official of the matchmaking company, told The Korea Times.
``But there are still prejudices when it comes to races Korean men and women choose as their partners in international marriages. Koreans are slowly changing to embrace other races in terms of marriage,'' she said.
Another survey released by the Corea Image Communication Institute in January also showed the Koreans' perceptional change toward international marriage.
The survey of 1,470 women and men aged 18-68, indicated that 61 percent of Koreans answered that they would allow their children to have a foreign spouse, while 37.4 percent said they would not.
The survey indicates that Koreans' attitudes towards interracial marriage is moving into a transition stage, but only in terms of accepting a child's choice of partner.
Recently, an increasing number of Koreans are marrying foreigners and becoming more open-minded about who their potential partners could be, rather than sticking to the notion of a one-race nation.
Koreans married about 25,000 foreigners in 2004 alone, especially Korean men living in rural areas who have difficulty finding Korean spouses.
According to the Ministry of Justice, the number of foreigners living with Korean spouses here jumped 35.5 percent to 60,214 in February last year from 44,416 in December 2003.
The figure was up from 57,069 at the end of 2004.
By nationality, most of them were from other Asian countries. Chinese, including Korean Chinese, accounted for the majority of foreign spouses with 35,928, followed by Japanese, 7,609, Vietnamese, 4,145, Filipinos, 3,876, Thais, 1,347 and Mongolians, 1,024.
You know those t-shirts with the text "I want a Japanese girlfriend" 
Well, I got an idea 
But I need your help, I need the text: "I want a korean boyfriend" in korean xD 
I FOUND IT. That's so cool! lol >,< but I'd still love if someone could write that text here for me, the size is no problem, word can handle korean )
:D But just for fun.... However, it's better if you are Asian. Normally, for an asian guys, his familly won't welcome you if you are white. Well, some familly does but it's rare. 
But I see more Korean couples here than interracial ones... Go figure.. . 
