| Re: multiracialism/some random statistics [message #8566] |
Sat, 29 April 2006 12:08  |
jrpking
Messages: 48
Registered: August 1998
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Hi Stephen:
> Conversely, in our first-year Korean course at my university here in
> Wellington, New Zealand we have 41 students, of whom 31 are Chinese
At UBC for the past 3-4 years now, Korean 102 (the intro-level Korean class for non-heritage learners) has filled up at 30 students (plus a waiting list) of whom approximately 25 are ethnically Chinese. Korean 104, the entry-level Korean class for heritage learners, is usually lucky to attract 10 Korean Canadian students.
(In the days before we instituted heritage vs. non-heritage first-year Korean, Korean 102 -- the only intro course -- attracted 30 students, of whom all but 2 or 3 were Korean Canadian).
And the motivation reported by the Chinese students is definitely pop culture, not business/IR, etc.
Cheers,
Ross
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Ross King
Associate Professor of Korean, University of British Columbia
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Dean, Korean Language Village, Concordia Language Villages
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| Re: multiracialism/some random statistics [message #8571 is a reply to message #8566] |
Sat, 29 April 2006 21:35  |
Samuel Henderson
Messages: 5
Registered: October 2005
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Balazs,
These may be the statistics you're looking for, concerning international
marriage in South Korea from 2000 to 2005:
http://www.nso.go.kr/eng/releases/report_view.html?num=522
The international marriage stats are in section 5; there are also stats for
international divorce further down the page.
Some very interesting trends there, but I'll leave it to the more learned
members of this list to guess what they may signify.
Cheers,
Sam Henderson
On 4/30/06, jrpking wrote:
>
> Hi Stephen:
>
> > Conversely, in our first-year Korean course at my university here in
> > Wellington, New Zealand we have 41 students, of whom 31 are Chinese
>
> At UBC for the past 3-4 years now, Korean 102 (the intro-level Korean
> class for non-heritage learners) has filled up at 30 students (plus a
> waiting list) of whom approximately 25 are ethnically Chinese. Korean 104,
> the entry-level Korean class for heritage learners, is usually lucky to
> attract 10 Korean Canadian students.
>
> (In the days before we instituted heritage vs. non-heritage first-year
> Korean, Korean 102 -- the only intro course -- attracted 30 students, of
> whom all but 2 or 3 were Korean Canadian).
>
> And the motivation reported by the Chinese students is definitely pop
> culture, not business/IR, etc.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Ross
>
>
>
> --
> Ross King
> Associate Professor of Korean, University of British Columbia
> and
> Dean, Korean Language Village, Concordia Language Villages
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>
>
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| Re: multiracialism/some random statistics [message #8572 is a reply to message #8566] |
Sat, 29 April 2006 21:50 |
Cedar Bough Blomberg
Messages: 42
Registered: October 2004
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When discussing international marriages in Korea the media tends to make it
sound drastic by quoting statistics from the most extreme areas, like
Boeun. There are other counties with little or no international marriages
at all, and equivalent populations.
"At the county level, Boeun county in North Chungcheong province topped the
list of inter-national marriages; 82 ouf the 205 marriages registered last
year, about 40 percent, were international marriages. The proportion was
only 20 percent in 2003 and rose to 28 percent in 2004." (Joongang Daily
4/7/06 pg. 1)
*Gender and International marriages:*
2003:
Korean men and foreign women= 19,214 marriages
Korean women and foreign men= 6,444 marriages
For as long as I've been in Korea the women have tended to marry people from
more economically powerful countries, like the US and Japan, and the men,
from less, like China and SE Asia.
*Origins of Foreign Wives: *
2004:
Japan- 1,224
US- 344
China- 18,527
Philippines- 964
Vietnam- 2,462
Thailand- 326
Russia- 318
Mongolia- 504
Others- 925
Sorry, can't find the statistics for Foreign Husbands right now.
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