JC

Well, just some of them. CVK and I have been dumbfounded by recent polls that took a look at people’s attitudes towards interracial relationships — asking whites, blacks, and Latinos, while leaving out Asians completely. This article in the Korean Times takes a look at attitudes among Korean men and women, so I guess it’s a start. Interesting that the poll was taken just as Hines Ward was visiting his homeland of Korea. It’s hard to say whether all of the recent positive attention surrounding him impacted the poll at all…

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.

Of course, we still have a way to go. Most Korean women prefer white/European partners in considering an interracial relationship, and most Korean men, if not with Korean women, would prefer another culturally Asian partner.

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.