I'm white and I have a Korean boyfriend here in Korea. He already introduced me to his parents, they like me and he is now formally dating me with their approval. He has mentioned marriage already but I didn't want to listen. (it's only been a month!
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Before I started to date him, I talked about this issue with quite a number of other guys (I came close to dating quite a few other Korean guys.) When I asked them if their families would allow him to marry me, only very few said no (mostly those whose parents come from really small villages), most said that their parents definitely wouldn't be happy, but that in such cases, the children nearly always won in the end. They told me if they really wanted to marry me, they would.
So it isn't hopeless. Things might be a little different though because most of you seem to have been dating Korean-American guys, whereas my honey is all Korean, born and raised. It's strange to think that Westernised Korean families are more conservative now than their counterparts in Korea.
Acceptance of interracial families seem to be on the increase thanks to idols such as Daniel Henney or Nicholas Cage (who married a gorgeous Korean woman.)
To all you people who say Koreans stick to their own kind only, I'm not really sure where you got this from. Korean-American women marry white American males in great numbers.
I also happen to know a Korean-American guy from NYC who is married (and has a daughter) with a beautiful African-American woman. He might be an exception, but what I'm saying is, having a Korean boyfriend isn't as hopeless as some of you make it out to be, from my experience.
Edit :I got the following info from my Lonely Planet Korea:
Due to Korean families traditionally wanting a male heir, it is estimated that by 2010 there will 128 Korean men in their prime marriageable age for every 100 Korean women in their prime.
Due to this, about 5% of all marriages in Korea now involve foreigners. About 10,000 Korean men marry Chinese, Filippino, Japanese or Russian women annually, whereas another few thousand Korean women marry primarily Japanese and American men every year.
5% is a big number, and it's only going to increase as Korea's bride shortage problem remains. Add to that to the fact that the one-child policy has made way for a massacre of the female unborn in neighbouring China (meaning, as soon as more Chinese families get wealthy enough, they will have to save the few women they have for Chinese men) and I'd say it won't take very long until quite a few families have to open their doors to foreign women if they don't want their sons to end up single.
It is true that, traditionally, Koreans don't want to mix their blood with foreigners - during the many, many, MANY invasions of foreign forces into Korea (Chinese, Mongols, Japanese, pirates, you name it), what was important to the Koreans was not to mix with these foreign forces in order to keep their sense of national identity as Koreans and nothing BUT Koreans.
Most Koreans have a book of their ancestors and place a lot of stress on bloodline - however, as I've said before, due to the problems of modern Korea, the Westernization of Korea and the increasing romanticism among young Koreans (they watch dramas, too. They like to believe that love conquers all, as is portrayed in their dramas), I really, really don't think that marrying a Korean man is impossible for a non-Korean woman.
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 
: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.. . 
