What's it Like Being Half White In Korea? 

I was hoping that words like 'toxic' and 'racism' are a song of the ugly past but it's good the first person was so honest and open about it. I was so close to visiting South Korea and Japan at one point. I'm a Motion Capture actor and in late 2015 I was in contact with Capcom about the facial likeness role of Leon for the Resident Evil 2 Remake. I failed to mention I also have a voice acting background, in the end I lost the part and I can't forgive myself for wasting such an opportunity. That would've been a real dream come true to work in Japan and visit South Korea.

Thank you for your channel...very interesting. I have watched a FEW Kdramas and have only a little knowledge of Kpop- NOT truly interested in either to be honest. How did you learn Korean? For some reason your personality remind me of the late Don Cornelius ( host of the dance program SOUL TRAIN ). Take care, brother, and keep up the EXCELLENT JOB👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾Aloha🌴🌴from Hawaii🌴🌴🌴✝️🙏🏾👍🏾

I have a mixed family and we are teaching both languages from day one. Books and TV shows in both languages, engagement and exposure daily in both languages. We are so blessed to be able to give our children the gifts of learning multiple languages. The best time to learn is as early as possible.

I met a guy who told me his grandparents came from Italy and insisted their kids focus on English in order to "fit in". They abandoned the old country, language, everything. I guess sometimes things happen where people want a new start. But I agree with you. It's advantageous to raise kids in a multi-lingual environment. It gives the kids more opportunities, and the chance to travel and connect with relatives who speak the other language.

Totally agreed as a pure korean who have never lived any abroad nor have any foreigner family or friends irl except for just online metabus lmao

​@@soraparticle2078Chinese lady I know married a westerner and she wanted her kids to just speak English as that's what language their education will be taught in.

That’s happening to my grandkids. They only speak their mother’s language which is English while me, my son (their father) and all of our family are Hispanics. Its a shame 😢

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I'm original 😊

​​@@wowhuge no you are not. You are just as much mixed DNA-wise as everybody around this world.

You do understand that racism is common in other countries as well. Like its not just whites xD I think its very racist people put in on one race and it always has to be whites that get hate.

Racism is everywhere unfortunately. In every country

​@@-_YouMayFind_-why make this comment? Just seems like you're invalidating their experiences of racism

Sorry you had a bad experience. I'm half Korean who grew up in South Louisiana during the 80's and 90's (schools were about 70% white 30% black with other races about nonexistent.) and did experience a bit of racism and often felt isolated at times. I found as I grew older the racism became less and less. About time I was in high school in the late 90's I rarely experienced it anymore. I ended up going to university in L.A. and my experience was I did find a lot of people to be racist but just more sneaky about it. In the south I could tell if someone is racist within a few minutes of meeting them not so much in CA.

​@@christopherguillot9377thats interesting. Seems the same up here in the midwest as in cali...

At the end of the day, you’re still an American even if you spoke fluent Korean.

@@inquisitvem6723 yeah or whenever ur from

Like in this video, most mixed couples involve an Asian female and that is very sad. It means many Korean males will be single for life.

@@guysovereign luckily I’m subscribed to quite a few mixed Korean families and only one has Korean wife

@@guysovereign there’s also quite a few Wasian and Blasian couples at my school and a majority have an Asian boyfriend and only 2-3 vise versa

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As a half Korean myself, I really appreciate you. We need more people like you here in Korea❤

@@hc.04 Well I wish you guys nothing but the best but this kind of relationship needs mutual respect. I'm pretty sure you know it. There's no one way. So we locals should love you guys and you guys also should love us. I think that is how it works.

This is great .

I'm half Korean and I appreciate your comment a lot. ❤ Thank you. 🙏🏼

also curious about this!

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This question has been asked a bunch. I don’t think he will ever answer it. He lives a mysterious / private lifestyle outside of these videos. Good for him, separating work from life!

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I used to live in a small white American town and there was one Asian girl (half white half Japanese) who kept getting teased and made fun of for liking Kpop

real 😭literally as soon as i tell someone i'm korean they mention kpop

@@rain-ts9fx I really do hate to ask but what’s ur other half?

@@gwenmloveskpopandmore white lol

@@rain-ts9fx oh

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The term is double liminality. I'm also mixed - It's constantly navigating between two groups at once. Being accepted in both but also thrown out of both at the same time. Hopefully mixed-raced issues get more spotlight in the future :)

People should focus more on their personality and their own insecurities instead of their race xD. I never saw race as an issue and I am considered white, maybe its because I never left my homeland and my familu fought for the freedom of this land and fought wars and everything that happened here that make me feel very connected to my country, but also Europeans are mixed european race because in the far far far past there were multiple different human races in Europe that ended up mixing. Our land were once connected to Africa as well. Spain was connected to Morroco. We are also connected to Asia. People just walk through lands. My grandma doesnt look like the typical west European but DNA-wise she is. She is very Western-European. A lot of immigrants come in since years now. Which is sometimes hard because they do change our culture without our permission. Its very different then America which had a complete different road, but here we are only getting diverse since the past 70 years. Maybe even shorter in most villages.

I’m white latina American but kept forgetting I wasn’t 100% white

Yeah out of all the multiracial Korean families I’m subscribed to only 1 has a Korean mom and doesn’t live in Korea. All the others have Korean dads/husbands and live in Korea with their mixed children

So it’s slowly starting to change

Yeah even being in Korea for the past two months, if there ever is interracial couples that I see, its always the guy that’s Korean. It’s never the girl

@@Fartsquad_ yeah I’m subscribed to many mixed Korean families but only 1 lives in the U.S with her white husband. The rest are non Korean women with Korean husbands who’re living in Korea with their children.

It's better than before, but I still think there are more Korean mom, white dad couples

Where in Korea? Are you a half Korean?

@@kauchkauch2272 I grew up in Seoul long time ago and lived in 여의도. And yes I'm half Korean. Speak it fluently.

I wonder why Koreans discriminate foreigners no matter where they come from. For a society who faced the Korean War and their existence mainly depend on other nations' help, namely the USA, they should be more considerate to expats.

@vnolan633 ok kimjong. Keep saying nonsense on internet

@@cesars267 Due to Korea's rapid development, In Korea, there are 3 to 4 generations living together who follow a completely different culture at the same time. 1. A generation with the culture and mindset of a pre-modern agricultural country; 2. The generation that achieved industrialization and democratization 3. A generation familiar with the information society 4. The generation born into the automation society Korea accomplished many things in 30 to 40 years that Europe and the United States achieved in a few hundred years and Japan in a hundred years. The Korea of the 1980s is a completely different country from the Korea of today.

@@melc4308 I know right! We are just half of everything. Im glad that you had a great time in here!

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He is half Russian, no?

@@lazvegazhe lived in Russia but he said he’s American

Being biracial can be hard but I feel you have to give your child a connection to both sides in order for them to find a path to feel connected to who they are and will become. I am half black half Latina and I didn't know who I was because who I was depended on the person who saw me as being one or the other or neither. It wasn't until I was out of high school I stopped worrying about not being black enough and not being Latino enough. My daughter went through this a bit too. Her father is half Japanese half white. But I raised her to have strong connections to her Latino black and Japanese sides and not worry about whether she looks like any one race. She looks Asian but would always say she didn't because she felt she didn't look asian enough. We luckily live in New York now so her group of friends are black, asian, Latino and white. It helps to have a community with many races. Your future child will find their connections with your help and those around them. Don't worry too much just always expose your child to all sides of their heritage and they with find their own path their. Expose them to multicultural foods, language, music, entertainment as a way to keep connected if they are not around people from their backgrounds. It helped us when we lived in an area that was one race. Finally learning Spanish helped me and my daughter was always exposed to Spanish and Japanese. She is trying to finally learn and practice speaking now. You got this! 💪🏽

@@JustAnotherNameYo thanks for your kind reply. My partner is Brazilian but his family came from Germany, he has a German family name and both citizenships. As he's born and raised in Brazil, he considers himself as a fully Brazilian, even though his family celebrate German holidays with German traditions. I'm just 100% Korean but in my whole life, I was told my way of thinking is not Korean and I'd better live abroad. In my late 20s finally I moved out. I lived in the states and now live in Germany and of course I cannot fit here or there 100% but I feel more comfortable and happier than when I lived in Korea. This totally my choice so it doesn't matter even if sometimes I feel excluded. But my future kids would be different. Your advice is at this point very helpful. I planned I'm gonna teach Korean because my kids will be born in Germany and German would be the first language. But as you said, it could be better, I show options for them to choose. Your living advice is really understandable and helpful. Thanks again and I hope your kid has no hard time because of asian look.

Reason enough to net get biracial children or not live in a country where you are not originally from. This is why a diverse society is not working.

I’m glad my little friend will get to learn Japanese. A long time ago very few parents besides Hispanics didn’t teach their Kids’s their native languages

And tbh a lot of people of Japanese decent/diaspora don’t even know Japanese. It was quite rare

That was really stupid and they robbed him he would’ve been able to get a job anywhere if you can speak three languages you’ll never go broke

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Yeah the actor who played Alex Finnerty (Peter Thurnwalt) is an Korean adoptee irl.

Now that you mentioned it, it’s so true. A lot of the English speaking Kpop idols come Australia and New Zealand

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Yeah I used to live in Arkansas and one of the very few Asians in my school and only Asian graduating with my cousin in 2024 has a white mom instead of Japanese

Although out of all the multiracial Korean families I watch on YT you won’t believe how many have a Korean mom. Only 1 and they don’t live in Korea either. I feel like it’s just now slowly changing. I repeat. Slowly

im half asian with a caucasian mother hehe

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Why they didnt?

@@santoshthapa8398 I don't know. Often wondered about that myself. They seemed to be closer to their father who is my uncle.

⁠@@upthedown1 probably cuz of they don’t get along with the Korean parent cuz she pushed them too hard.

@@upthedown1 but it’s common for people of Asian descent in the U.S to not embrace it where there’s not many Asians

Gay

They could be Pan or Bi thoo.@@alain2467

It’s a lot easier when you’re in a country where everyone is just an influx of genetic mixtures. But even in the US where there are many separate races and ethnicities with immigrants being only first or second generation, a lot of 50% 50% mixed kids feel like they don’t belong to either of the groups that each of their parents belong to and have stated that it’s isolating and they also have a lot of self identity conflicts growing up

@@remmond3769 agreed it’s still a problem in our country but for where I live and for my friendship group it’s the last thing we think about. My close friendship group alone consists of Arabic, Asian, European and Islander. Sadly I think it will always be an issue as long as humans are around.

Yeah actor and Korean Australian adoptee Peter Thurnwalt said he was grateful to be around other adoptees

You don't have to worry, it's a story when Korea was poor, and now Korean men are getting more than 5 times more international marriages.

That’s only because of the war and women from poor countries mostly go with foreign men because they think life may be better elsewhere . That’s not the case with Korea anymore, it’s more the case with Ph, Vietnam and Thailand and actually interracial marriages in Korea especially between white men and Korean women are kinda looked down upon. I’ve been there for the past few months and there’s so many couples everywhere but they’re always both Korean. If there ever is a couple of interracial couples that I’ve seen, it’s always a Korean guy with a foreigner

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Yeah but she’s also from a state with not many Asians where she grew up

Actually there’s more people that know English than u think. It just depends where u live

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Yeh can confirm, half Dutch half Indonesian, thanks to the dutch colonial past. I never felt a complete dutch person but neither an indonesian. It’s like you’re looking for your identity your whole life lol

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Yes for sure. I am half black half Latino and my daughter's father is half white half Japanese. The 3 of us have experienced racism from our own community and people around us for not looking straight up like one of them other. It can mess with your self worth but luckily we all have strong ties to our heritage, culture and family. That helped keep that love of self, keeping our connections to all sides of us. But man it can be hard.

Humans evolved with group think. The whole globalization only happened for no less than 100 years or so. It is should be expected. I’m not gonna live long enough to see if human can exist as one group or doom anyway.

Yeh thanks to the VOC

Unfortunately racism is everywhere. In every country but now we are improving a lot. Now when someone is racist we call them out and evryone is starting to be a better person. Nice

I’m so sorry u had to go through this

@@annanowak9620 yep the U.S is still Racist

Y’all have to remember blood does not define you, you cultural environment does. Her being from small town Iowa, it may have pushed her to be as Americanized as possible because of the hostile environment. Places like that can be very one way minded and that mentality gets solidified. Because of that, the mindset may not be to learn Korean or have no hunger to submerge yourself in the linguistic and macro culture even after 10 years.

@@2enthusiast4 that’s sad…

Kind of hard to make assumptions like this when we get a short snapshot of their experience. Also a lot of Korean people’s English skills are really good so you have to find a Korean person in Korea who’s English is worse than your Korean and is also willing to practice with you. It can be a challenge. 😮‍💨

@@2enthusiast4I don’t know why you made it sounds sad. That is just how it is. If you are born in Korea for example, you at least need to assimilate. If you don’t, then there will be no common goal as a country. Assimilation doesn’t mean erasing yourself or family culture; you just trying to fit in while keeping some of the og culture in you.

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This is a very privileged attitude. My family immigrated from a "poor" country to korea. Only my sister and I speak korean well because we had that opportunity to go to school. It takes YEARS of dedicated study compared to learning Spanish or something. The languages are not similar at all. And even speaking korean I can't get a much better than job that my parents lol.

@@allis5870they’re saying you should at least TRY and learn the basics of the language to have simple conversations (like buying something in a store or ordering food) without a translator if you live there. They didn’t say you have to know it fluently but you should be able to read the basics no matter how different your native language is. Even just as little as reading Hangul and learning key/commonly used words will go a long way when you see them day to day.

Yep

Yeah although I feel like slowly that’s slowly starting to change. Only 1 family I watch on YT out of the multiracial Korean families has a Korean mom

What’s even more weird is I used to live in Arkansas and one of the very few Asians in my school and only Asian graduating with my cousin in 2024 has a white mom instead of Japanese

Also Majoity of the Wasian and Blasian couples at my school have Asian boyfriends. There’s only 2-3 who have Asian girl friends.

Yes my dad is white and my mom is singaporean

Yeah, she looks pretty (Asian) Korean. I don't see how people would know unless she told them. No one can control genetics or anything, but I think of "Eurasian" looking people when they say "American (White) and Asian". Usually the person looks like either or.

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How’s your life in Switzerland as a half Korean?

@@keun-Nik actually very good, sometimes I get treated as a foreigner but it‘s okay

Grüessli us dä Schwiiz 😊

Yeah it can be hard for mixed Koreans and especially adoptees

In the past, the majority of visitors to Korea were in the military, and that tended to be male. Thanks to K-dramas and K-Pop, there are far more female visitors than there were just 20 years ago.

I’m subscribed to a bunch of multiracial Korean families and only 1 doesn’t have Korean father

Yes please

It's 23chrstttn

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People outside of Asia have a hard time telling Asians apart. Us asians can usually tell the difference between each other. She definitely looked mixed

Some Russians look really Asian 🤷‍♀️ ik this girl who looked so Korean to me but she was adopted from Russia. Russia is a very diverse country . But yeah i get what you mean, the first girl looked very Korean. But maybe she looks diff from certain angles. She also says she gets mistaken for Chinese and Japanese .

@Fartsquad_ Being adopted from Russia isn't the same as being ethnically Russian. A lot of Asians, including Koreans, live there. It's not that "some Russians look really Asian" - they are ethnically Asian, they only live in Russia.

@@msjkay16yea but a lot of ethnically Russian people look kinda Asian cause they got some Asian genes

@@bratzlover501 not a lot :-) Sometimes people might have high cheekbones, that's it. Mongol invasion happened centuries ago, any Asian genes are too diluted by now.

yeah and?

@@exo_comeback_please thats odd

@@themiddlelayer yeah but she said shes been in korea since 2014

@@themiddlelayer I believe that individuals who are mixed feel like outcasts because of various factors such as the country they were born in and/or how they were raised by their parents.

She's young though, well it's on her. It's going to restrict many opportunities