{"id":55887,"date":"2018-03-14T21:18:36","date_gmt":"2018-03-14T21:18:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=55887"},"modified":"2018-03-17T23:45:32","modified_gmt":"2018-03-17T23:45:32","slug":"kopino-children-half-korean-half-filipino-fatherless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=55887","title":{"rendered":"Kopino Children: Half Korean, Half Filipino, Fatherless"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kopino Children: Half Korean, Half Filipino, Fatherless<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Korea Expos\u00e9<\/a>
\n2017-12-07<\/p>\n

Raphael Rashid<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\nCover image: Filipino mother holding Kopino<\/a> child (Source: KBS 1 documentary \u201cSearching for Runaway Father<\/a>\u201c)<\/em><\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Kristi, 23, met a South Korean man in the city of Makati, Philippines<\/a>, through a blind date. \u201cIt was love at first sight. We were dating for a few months. Soon enough, I found out he was already married with kids. It broke my world so I decided to end it there.\u201d<\/p>\n

But things didn\u2019t work out for Kristi: Shortly after their break-up, she realized she was pregnant. \u201cHe told me \u2018Don\u2019t worry I\u2019m here for you, I won\u2019t leave you,\u2019 but one month before giving birth, he just disappeared.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a recurring theme: South Korean men go to the Philippines<\/a>, have relationships of varying degrees of commitment with local women, father children, and then at one point or another flee back to South Korea<\/a> severing all ties and leaving the mothers alone with the children…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s a recurring theme: South Korean men go to the Philippines, have relationships of varying degrees of commitment with local women, father children, and then at one point or another flee back to South Korea severing all ties and leaving the mothers alone with the children.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,16,8],"tags":[28157,1799,28156,28136,229],"class_list":["post-55887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-asia","category-media-archive","tag-korea-expose","tag-philippines","tag-raphael-rashid","tag-sex-tourism","tag-south-korea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55887"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55887\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55922,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55887\/revisions\/55922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}