From the archives: Multicultural families in Asia. People look at them and assume they are from the same ethnic group/culture. They are not even intercultural marriages either. They experience cultural and language barriers. Read how the Korean government is helping with the language barrier. They offer language classes at the local library! Communities should do this. According to AJU Business Daily, more than 150,000 foreigners immigrated to South Korea for marriage at the end of 2013, with 85.4% of those moving being women. Chinese made up the greatest number at 41.4%, followed by Vietnamese at 26.4%, Japanese and Filipinos. The Story: Ms. Fernandez, a Filipina wife married to a Korean husband in Naju, Jeollanam-do (South Jeolla Province), had the same issues in her early married life in Korea, as nobody helped her learn the Korean language. She had no time to go to free Korean language classes offered at the community library or immigration center because she had to help her husband with farming work and raise their children. She has difficulties teaching Korean to her children at home due to her insufficient knowledge of Korean. But these days, she meets her Korean language teacher three times a week thanks to the government‘s children-rearing support project for multicultural families. Now she can talk better in Korean and feel better by releasing her stress, because her teacher listens to her stories and problems and introduces Korean culture. Oguchi Yumi, a Japanese lady who lives in Busan, Gyeongsangnam-do (South Gyeongsang Province), with her Korean husband, is another beneficiary of the government‘s child rearing support project for multicultural families. She was unable to teach her kids Korean at home like ordinary Korean parents because of her lack of Korean language skills, but now she feels more confidence in teaching her children because she can receive help from her Korean language teacher. “South Korean men think they should be the breadwinner and wives should take care of the money. Stay-at-home wives shoulder half the responsibility of family and work, so half of their salary is equal to be earned by their wives,” says Zheng, a full-time wife who lives in the US. “I think South Korean men have a character of fortitude, perhaps because they have to serve in the army (mandatory) for two years. They have a strong sense of honour, with great cohesion and discipline. They have carried forward Confucianism very much, for example, to respect the elders.” thestar.my/Lifestyle/People/2014/08/11/More-Chinese-celebs-and-South-Korean-stars-are-getting-hitched-heres-why/ multiculturalmarriages.blogspot/2011/06/stories-of-multicultural-families.html
Posted on: Sun, 11 Jan 2015 03:31:35 +0000
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