So I don’t often rant but this is something that is bothering me. Key on ‘we got married’, yes. Well I am call Jongkey’s wedding for a reason. I know that it is just a program and stuff but to tell you the truth this rant isn’t really about that.

This rant is about dating. Key will be Married to a Japanese artiste and Heecheel to a Taiwanse or something (I don’t remember) it is not really the point. Here comes the problem:

By tradition Koreans marry Koreans. That is what they get told from young until now… but now what, Idols are trying out these things. Idols that are supposed to be the example to the perfect being etc blablabla~

Well great, they are trying it out! That is a good thing. Well here is my discomfort. I have been dating a Korean man; Born and raised in Incheon. He has done everything in the book, stayed in school from 9 in the morning to 10 at night, he did his military duty and never went against his parent’s wishes. Until now. He is dating a ‘westerner’

I heard them fight once. Him and his mother, and after that he was very upset. He didn’t even want to see me for a bit. He needed to know if it was all worth it… that upset me. Is it really such a big deal? I am from a good high middle class family, have good education, speak 4 languages and am willing to learn the Korean culture. The problem is that my parents are not Korean…. That is it. I’m a mixture myself. And I’m talking about different continents.  *sigh*

We don’t even live in Korea, but still we live in a city where there are a lot of tourists and with that also lots of Koreans. To tell the truth, his work is selling tax free goods too those big tour groups and those same people are the ones that gives us a dirty look when we walk around hand in hand. We might as well be a gay couple walking around in Texas. I hear them whisper behind our back and while I often do not understand it, my boyfriend often clenches my hand and hurries me away. When I ask what they say he often tells me that I don’t need to know. So I thought about asking one of my other Korean friends the same question. He said that if they want to be really rude they can call you a . They think because of the openness in dating in Europe that a woman is easily wooed into bed or the other way around. That the girl wooed the man into bed. “Western women are easy.” I think that is just rude.

Anyways; What I’m a bit worried about is that this can either be an eye-opener or work negatively. But still, we are talking Asia only. I know that it is a step, and the next one could be bigger but still. I don’t really know what to feel about the matter. Are they ready, or are they going too far?

Fake or not, this is an issue that bothers me and many other couples.