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Baby Boom of Mixed Children Tests South Korea
Fackler, Martin http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/29/world/asia/29babies.html?_r=1
Publisher: New York Times
Date Written: 29/11/2009
Year Published: 2009
Resource Type: Article
Across South Korea hundreds of thousands of foreign women have been immigrating in recent years, often in marriages arranged by brokers. They have been making up for a shortage of eligible Korean women, particularly in underdeveloped rural areas. Now, these unions are bearing large numbers of mixed children, confronting this proudly homogeneous nation with the difficult challenge of smoothly absorbing them. South Korea is generally more open to ethnic diversity than other Asian nations with relatively small minority populations, like neighboring Japan. Nevertheless, it is far from welcoming to these children, who are widely known here pejoratively as Kosians, a compound of Korean and Asian.
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