Online dating in Korea
It seems Korea isn't quite as open to interracial dating as pretty well every other Asian country. I blame Christianity and girls who live with their moms until they're 35. There are girls who have what I'd call a fetish for white guys, but there are let's say 1000 in the country, and each one with them has a veritable Noah's Ark of STDs after weekend upon weekend of anonymous sex. So when I was new here, I decided the least filthy way to meet a girl was for the Internet to make a match.

Hence, I signed up on a few Korea-themed personals boards. Basically, they're filled with white and black guys who are looking for a girl to send their cock pictures to, and a ton of Korean girls who want a penpal in another country or an English tutor.

I sent out messages to a few, and got a response back from one girl living in the same town as me. Her profile photo did everything wrong: it was webcam quality, a headshot, and it made her look kind of like a swamp creature. We met up anyway, and it turned out she was stunningly beautiful, with golden coloured eyes and flawless pale skin.

Anyway, after about a month of not getting very far, she broke up with me because I wasn't Christian (neither was she but she went to church because she thought it would make her a better person). I told her I'd wait for her if she ever changes her mind.

Pissed, I went home. In my junkmail box was an automated reply that I'd received another message. I'd been getting tons of these, and usually they turned out to be Russian or Filipina hookers. But I clicked on it anyway, and it was another Korean girl who was interested in some of the bands I'd listed. Her profile was mostly blank, no picture, but I noted the word "atheist" which would have made the last time a lot simpler.

She lived with her parents and refused to meet me until she was back in her own apartment. Finally one day I was waiting in the train station to meet her for the first time, when a woman about 40 came over with her toddler son and told him in Korean "Say hello." I was mortified, but she walked away. A few minutes later a much younger girl came over and suggested we start drinking. She turned out to be the one and we got married last year.

Anyway, sorry to rub it in and apologies for length.

Oh yeah, and the first girl messaged me a few months later--she had changed her mind and wanted me back.
(racetraitor has an alibi for, Thu 20 Sep 2007, 3:05, Reply)