"remember you're not dating a Korean, you're dating another human being and all humans have strengths and weaknesses" that quote, got me subscribed to your channel, good job!

"It means foreigner. It also means alien" 😂😂

"If you're a foreigner with a Korean crush, show them that you're not just another foreigner with a Asian fetish" I laughed

My mom is mexican and my dad french but they communicated by speaking german

"You are dating another human being." You are amazing.

honestly i expect park jimin to somehow fall in love with me and learn english so we can live happily ever after i'll probably die alone lmao

The difficult thing about having a preference for Korean men is that people think non koreans like them because they have a korean/asian obsession. In that sense of the word I wouldnt even consider myself that whatsoever. I have interest in all different types of cultures, in fact I didnt becone interested in Korea, Japan, ir other Asian countries because of Kpop or kdramas. I liked the culture first and then that's how I discovered the music and genre, through my interest in cultures I learned about a lot of different genres of music and dramas from around the world. Why do I have a preference for Korean men ? Well for one, I find them attractive. Just like how some people find white people, hispanic or black people attractive. I know an asian girl who has a preference toward middle eastern men! And that's totally find thats her preference. But another thing, just because I have a preference for them does not mean I will date any Korean guy ! I have my standards. I still very much care about whats inside the most no matter if he is korean or not, and I understand that every person is different regardless of ethnicity. There are different people of every group. So no I do not have high expectation of Korean men, or think they're like how they act in dramas. Actually Ive only seen one kdrama, but still I know actors are acting. I hate how do called "koreaboos" make us non koreans interested in culture look weird or bad in any way.

It's pretty funny how girls are like "I love the Korean culture... K-POP OPPAAAA K-DRAMAAAASSS" As if that was the only thing Korean culture consisted of -_-

She listed so many types of Koreans I was half expecting her to say Korean-Antarctican.

My Korean crush is a wonderful person, i love his s(e)oul.

I'm currently dating a South Korean guy since November. He lived most of his life in Korea but moved to Japan to attend university. In April 2015, he moved to my country(Ireland) to attend a language school. I met him in May when he contacted me to become language exchange partners. We quickly became friends as I helped him improve his English ability and I discovered that I loved those times during the week when we'd talk to each other. It was awkward at first and we didn't talk for very long but after a few weeks we ended up talking for hours, laughing and smiling together. He's helped me quite a bit with Korean too. I'm a beginner but I've been interested in the culture for years. I met him for the first time in person in August. Prior to this, he "confessed" to me over skype so our first meeting was like a date? We met each other in the morning and went to a cafe and talked for a long time before the restaurant he wanted to take me to opened. He brought me to a Korean place as I had ever tasted Korean food before! It was so delicious. In the afternoon, we went to the park and things got very romantic..he kissed me for the first time. Before this he caught me by surprise by holding my hand before we crossed the street together. Since then, we met each other twice. He came to my house in September, spent time in my village, met my parents, visited local attractions with me. We acted like a couple but there was no label. In October, he came to the city where I'm attending university and spent almost two days with me. He was leaving later that week so he felt like he really needed to see me again before leaving for good. He told me he wanted to maintain this relationship with me but didn't ask me to be his girlfriend until two months ago. His feelings for me got much stronger since going home, he loves me more he told me. I'm not sure what's going to happen in the future but I want to be with him. He's very sweet, hardworking and kind. He's very gentle towards me. I'm planning on visiting him Christmas 2016. His mom is very curious about me and he has spoken to her about me(what I do during my days etc) He wants me to improve my Korean so I can speak to her(I think this is a good sign) He hasn't told his family about me(that I'm his girlfriend) but I sent him a gift at Christmas and his parents were very curious "wow! she must like you a lot". He talks about marriage to me and I feel like if things keep going the way they are going, he could propose in the future once I finish in university. I'm his first "western" girlfriend and there's an age gap between us(not much, 7 years/8 in Korean)

"Which means foreigner........... It could also mean alien......."

I don't think Asians hate black people. It's just the way certain people see things. I've dated a korean before and I didn't feel unwanted or rejected, it was the complete opposite of what most people would think. On top of that I'm from the mother land. Africa.

I'm dating someone who is half English and half Korean. He's just lovely and it's interesting to see how his parents interact with him a bit differently, to hear the different places he's lived growing up, and to see his perspective on life. I think that culturally he leans more toward his English side. I didn't fall for him only because he's handsome OR Korean, though! I fell for him because he is funny, very smart, and passionate about his education! :)

I love this episode! You said what I have always wanted to tell my viewers! I love your videos! :)

I'm a latina & I'm dating a Korean man. He got me so interested in Korean culture that now I'm learning the language & listening to the music :) so awesome! P.S. I also take off my shoes now when I get into a house haha :D

I'm on my way Yoongi!!

I am currently engaged in my best friend from Seoul, South Korea. We were sort of pen pals, but ICQ back in the late 90's. We stopped for a while then wrote again a few years later. I found that she had met someone and was progressing well in life. I moved on with my life. We stopped writing for some time again, this time much longer as life had changed for us both. I went through many relationships, many of them felt like "relationships", with us only acting like we are expected to do in a relationship, and didn't feel any real love. My life was going downward because the economy was falling hard and fast. So I decided to go back to college and get a better life going. After another terrible and heartbreaking relationship, I didn't have many friends left because of all the time I spend studying and working. I decided to write to her. We haven't stopped writing since May 2014, and are currently engaged. It's kind of hard because she till lives in Seoul, and I in Connecticut, USA. I travel to see her every March, and she comes to see me every September. But we are dedicated to one another. I can't just move to Korea right now with school, and she has a good job now. But we are planning on making our decision to be together by the years end, or beginning next year. I love her more than I could love anyone, and she comes first in my life. We don't need talk to show one another our love, we feel it, and I can't wait to spend many quiet beautiful evenings with her in my arms.

I would like to date a korean boy because i love how they look (especially their eyes), i love their culture, their traditions, everything. But i'm not sure if they would loke to date a white girl.

Well I'm Korean and my mom prefers me to date a Korean when I get older but regardless I'm open to all ethnic :) Never give up people~

I don't have anything of use to add, but I just wanted to say: very nicely handled! I really appreciate that you openly addressed that while, yes, sometimes general cultural viewpoints do exist, they don't apply to everyone. We all need to be reminded sometimes that we're interacting with _human beings._

My boyfriend now is Korean and honestly I will say the only difference is his culture. I must say I've always been attracted to Korean men, but they were either not interested in dating a Haitian woman or focused on school (which is fine). Now all I do is learn about his culture and he is planning a trip so we can go to Korea together. It is being with another human being and eve though other people see our colour difference I see him as my man and he sees me as his woman and that's it.

"High five to shameless self-promotion!" HAHA! Really love KWOW!! :D

Hi! Two years ago, I married my beautiful native Korean wife. She is from Jinju and I am from the exotic island of Tahiti, French Polynesia. I speak French and a little bit of Tahitian. Our marriage is based on respect, communication and love. Unlike my family, her family has had a hard time adapting to our intercultural marriage. Now, we are on good terms. Thank you professor Oh for this video. Feel free to ask us any questions.

I want to be multicultural and I would want to know the world, dating someone with such a different culture would complete me.

Who freakin' cares about Kpop? Why isn't there Kmetal?

Thank God I found this Channel. She's an awesome teacher and seems like an awesome person. Awesome overload!

Great cut...love the message. Brilliant and inspiring, fleshing out a very serious topic is no easy task, but you managed to handle it with depth and truth. Well done...and thank you.

I'm dating a Korean guy. Nothing actually happen. He is like a missing member of a group. He's looks like SungMin, Baekhuyn n Jonghuyn mixed together. His dance is just as sexy as Kai. His body is just perfect,as Siwon,etc. He's a hot boy in my skool n yeah..girls jelous with me but idc. Thnks for the video

I'm half korean and half white. I have an extremely hard time dating any asian ethnicity or any girl period. I think it's because I don't have in common with them and my appearance is different than casual or preppy. Yes that's right, have really long hair, likes heavy metal, likes anime, like to play games, goal driven, a little bit shy but not that bad, personality & attitude a great mix between goofiness and serious, also very does not drink/smoke/weed or any drugs ( literally almost everybody does this especially weed) and non militant (I think this might be the biggest reason if not then my long hair scares them). And really the only type of girls that are not my type are the chubby ones, but that's just me. I doubt the "right" people judge people by looks either and even then I'm not bad, average in weight and maybe a 6.5 through 8/10 on the handsome scale. Most people look for character if they are loyal, honest, trustworthy or what have you. But the weirdest thing is even though I have these qualities, I'm still not their "type" and this really confuses me. I'm also aware that some women like to use men or just something to brag about like the man has a lot of money or he has a really nice car, which I do not have and honestly I rather not date a woman who thinks like that. So with that being said, I still don't know how to get any date and sometimes I just give up and find other things productive with my life.

Oh my, i found your channel yesterday and I think i saw almost all your videos since then, they are soooooo interesting , rich in informations (I can't stop learning so many things!! 😤) and so funny ,you made me fall in love for the second time with the korean culture! Thank you so so much and keep on makingthis wonderful videos!! FIGHTING!!💕😍

These new kwow are really awesome I love them a lot!! Keep up the awesome videos!

she is saying the truth in this video im currently dating a korean guy and he was the one who asked me out ever since we started dating we have learned so much about eachother and our cultures and religions and we love eachother for who we are instead of omg kpop or k drama type of love sometimes it accidently happens but most of the time its just like any other normal relationship and it takes progress to build trust and love

My dad immigrated from Korea as a boy only to grow up in the US and marry his college sweetheart my mom, a white girl from Michigan. Their relationship wasn't accepted initially. You need to understand the perspective. My Korean grandparents had an arranged marriage (based on the Korean caste system). My paternal grandmother was a descendant of the Yangban traditional ruling class of nobles. To marry a foreigner was definitely looked down upon at the time. Over time, my Dad said his parents came to accept and love my mother in spite of her not being Korean. My Harmonee lived with us since we were babies until her death in 1994. Since I was born I never knew there was tension regarding race between the two sides of my family. It was only when I grew up and noticed that some Koreans do not like the idea of "watering down the pure blood" and that some people are still not comfortable with the idea of mixing races. I think it may have to do with Korea being conquered by the Japanese and Chinese over the centuries. There is a desire to keep their culture and customs in tact. Personally, I feel more American than anything and find it hard to completely identify with my Korean side. For me, It's hard to keep up with the Koreans. I am enjoying your educational/ entertaining videos though!

I love how thorough and impartial you are. Love your videos!

not going to lie, sweetandtasty i have watched pretty much a lot of your videos after i have been dating my korean gf for 6 months. you had me have her mom and dad in awe as i knew a lot. so Thank you.

My boyfriend is Korean, i must admit i was scared of his mother not accepting me. I was afraid my Mexican parents wouldn't accept him as well, in the end our patents are fine with us dating. Now my boyfriend and i are learning each others boundaries. Thanks for the video :)

Naturally I'm drawn to women with smaller eyes so I particularly like Asian women. But only wanting to date Korean seems strange to me. Why restrict yourself to such a narrow choice. There are great people that could be the perfect match all around the world and you could be looking in the wrong country.

You're amazing! Now subbed to your blog and following you on Twitter. I'm watching you!

I love learning with you!! Thanks for your videos, they are really helpful

im married to a korean and its awesome :) thats why im learning Korean, so it will be easier to raise our kids with both languages.

This was an a amazing video! I do find Korean guys attractive and would have loved to date one, but the truth is I do watch to many K-Dramas and expected Korean guys to be similar. I am happily married now, but I still find this topic very interesting!

I can't believe I just found you! I'm applying to teach English in Korea, and have been researching heavily about the culture and language. I'm subscribing! You are fun, informative, and awesome!

how you're talking and what you're talking about are so easy to understand. This kind of topics can be so complicated to handle it out! Thank you :) And I love Korean girls cause (generally) the way how the feel love... BTW you're singing pretty good! I love your voice...

I wouldn't mind dating people from other cultures but I feel like it would be difficult unless they purely had no expectations of me and vise versa. I sometimes feel like an outsider when I'm hanging out with my friends who where raised differently and just have different standards for foods, clothing, and beauty products simply because they are of a different ethnicity which requires different ways of going about everyday tasks. I feel like I could be deemed racist at any moment even though I have total respect for all cultures and ethnicities. I said 'different' so many times in this lol

Personally, I've been drawn to the culture as a whole for a little close to a decade - I am 18. Whether it is the people, language, shows, architecture, music, history, and so much more, I've always been drawn to east asian culture. It is just nice to know that if I do wish to woo someone, they will possibly not be turned off due to my foreigner-ness. I do wish to also study abroad and maybe even tutor/teach English too. That is why I am taking initiative and learning korean (random but also randomly picking up Thai because of Thai dramas, Lovesick. That's another story.) so I will be able to speak the Korean language and teach the English language in Korea. Even if I didn't want to be a teacher, I have always wanted to visit an amorous amounts of times, maybe even rent property there. (In a future episode of KWOW, maybe you can talk about the policy/attitudes to foreigners achieving some type of permanent living arrangements in korea IF YOU KNOW) This pretty much turned into a rant, but now that I am 18 and the ball is in my park, I am excited that I will possibly soon be able to do this!

This video is amazing. I love how you explained it!(:

Thank you for your advice. I am going to have to watch all of your episodes.

My parents are interracial. My dad is Black and my mom is South Korean. My mom didn't speak much English but they made it work. Both of my sides like each other. They're some Koreans who don't like interracial dating but it depends on that person.

I could date just about any women from most cultures. I'm open minded and generally not bothered by most believes.

I am so happy you did this vid!

I watched almost 10 of your videos now ^^ haha~~ all are really interesting. Maybe because my interest in asia is really big especially korean music. Keep up the work =3

I'm Korean American and I am pansexual. I don't care about race, gender, sexual identity, etc. personality matters the most to me(:

I like the smart, loving, faithful and warrior woman. I don't care if is korean, japanese, german, french, mexican, italian or whatever... I think that all the women are beautiful...

Very creative way of getting this subject out there. Like the Rocky and Bullwinkle Show, the moral of the story is, people are all over the world want and seek the same thing. We just go about it a little different.

These videos are quite imformative about the things one should know if you want to start learning about Korea. I subscribed today after watching a few.

My b.f is Korean and when we go out we get weird looks sometimes lol. I love the Asian culture because i share a lot of similarites like Animes, k-pop & j-pop etc. I love so many things it's hard to say them all, over all i love the people ^_^

most people watch this cause they want to know if they have a chance with their bias lmao

I was watching some military channel video and it recommended this video, Your ways of speaking and giving tips are amazing, I found that more interesting xD

This was such a good video and this topic is ALWAYS difficult to cover fully. I agree with you about a lot of it that we date humans in this growing day and age and I really enjoyed listening to all the other points you had to say. I found it nice how you put your own opinion in there and covered other opinions too that other people may hold

I think it is a great video. However, competition in dating is extremely fierce. Most people do not have any ideas how competitive to get married in Korea or the US. I think people need to focus on person's character instead of appearance or money.

omg, you made me think of lee min ho! He's so handsome!

Owww I loved your advice at the end

Hello I just subscribed to your channel ^_^ I'm going to start learning Korean, and I saw your video on the alphabet :) I'm going to look forward to watching and learning. Thank you :)

I have a Korean crush, he's not just really into dating even though to his fellow Koreans hahahahahahah

I am open minded with dating diffrent rases but i want to date a korean guy beacuse I am really intrested in the korean culture and I really want to date someone who likes K-pop! O.O

Thank you for such an insightful video Professor Oh. Thank you.

I really liked this video specially the last two minutes :)

I would love to date a foreigner but, I would prefer a Korean or a Chinese foreigner.

When a Korean married with Non-Korean, what will be their childs names? There's some different cultures, you know..

I love your show

this was very well-worded!

I'm trying to learn foreign languages (other than English), because I'm more into Asian people than the others.. It's not a fetish or anything, I just find them really attractive x) Europeans are.. "boring" in a way x) Just my preference, I don't want to offend anyone of course :3

I feel like most of the Koreans and Japanese I've met have just treated me with the respect I want to be treated with, unlike Americans and Italians( I live in Italy) who've treated me like trash or a sex toy. While most Asians that I've met are so polite, probably from the way they were raised. That's one of the reasons I prefer Asians, instead of looks or money, I look for manners and personality. What about you? I'd love to hear others people opinions!

just come across your channel and i love your vids! You are so cute, informative and really amusing! for my university exchange program, i want to go to South-Korea, Kookmin University this year (sept-feb)! So it's a great way to learn the Korean culture and more! Definitely subscribing! :D

You are so wonderful! Your tolerance and explanation of dating an idea of a korean person verses the reality! Thank you so much! ♡♡♡

I have a korean crush too tho they live in South America but they still hangout with themselves, I rarely see some asian with a latin american person hanging out together :/ I wish I could meet some asian guy or girl and be friends but they seem so closed o.o

Kpop changed me. That's why 😭

I want subtitles :( This is so much simpler to understand when this is written.. But when I understand, I love your videos :D! Fighting!

just found this youtube yesterday! i like you soo much omfg

if your black forget it cause light is right so it seems..... :/

I am half Korean.

5:29 I'm just watching this video and following KWOW since about 2 weeks ago. TBH, my best answer would be that it's not that "I want to date a Korean girl", but the fact that the girl I like and who I'm talking to happens to be Korean! She is so cool and interesting that she made me want to learn Korean, something I never even thought about doing before! Regardless of the outcome, I'm super thankful for your amazing content. It's helped me a lot for sure!

Wonderful video. Very true points.

Wow, great episode!

You are a GREAT Korean language teacher!

I like hearing all the different perspectives based on the individual commenters and of course KWOW's video, very insightful. My perspective is that there are a lot of stereotypes that float about and create misunderstandings among the diverse cultures of the world, Korean culture is no exception. It's good to keep an open-mind about different groups of people and get to know the individuals themselves, rather than generalize their conduct because it just adds to the cycle of misunderstanding.

you are amazing.... never seen anyone who teaches Korean with so fun and humor..... love you for that...keep doing it....take care.

Why are you always so calm? Hahha I liked this Ep!

Very well said, sweetandtasy.

i remember 3 years ago when you she had like a few video lol good to see you making more... i came back cause im learning korean... again

Wow! This video is amazing!

I totally get what you're saying. I mean, it would be great to get a chance to know more about a person that comes from such a polite culture. Obviously, not every single korean is polite, kind and lovey-dovey, but a lot of them have strong values and I admire koreans for that. And all those cute traditions, like wearing couple charms/clothes and showing their love in a subtle way its something I find really beautiful in a culture ^-^

I LOVE YOUR SHOW!! KWOW 대박!!

Thumbs Up to you and to your words of wisdom Prof. Oh!!!

i love your perspective on people!! im korean american adopted and my husband is Caucasian and he has loved almost everything korean ive introduced to him 💖💖💖

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Ughh thank you!! I knew I couldn't be the only one who felt this way. Everything you said (& in your other two comments also) is exactly how I feel and what I try to explain to people. By this point in my life, I'm kind of used to it and I expect it, but I won't lie and say that it still doesn't hurts my feelings.

Eyyyy girl, that channel plug doe :P

Hi Ms. Oh! :) what does it mean when Koreans say "come to me"? I've seen it a lot in Kdramas. 감사합니다! 💖