The New York Times love affair with South Korea continues as another article about Korean society is published this past weekend.  This time they investigate the recent increase in births of biracial children born of mixed marriages, who are known as “Kosians,” a mix of Korean and Asian.  This is the result of an increasing number of Korean men marrying other Asian women.

That is only about 1 percent of the approximately 12 million children in South Korea under the age of 19. But if marriages to foreigners continue to increase at their current rate — they accounted for 11 percent of all marriages here last year — more than one in nine children could be of mixed background by 2020, demographic researchers say.

The article brings up the same theme from a previous New York Times article about how South Korea is dealing with race.  The first article was about the influx of foreigners that now reside in South Korea and this one is about the increasing population of mixed children.  Based on these articles, you would think that South Korea is the only Asian country dealing with race issues.  It begs the question, is South Korea really that unique from other countries or is South Korea’s challenges that much more pronounced?  What is going on in South Korea is healthy and a natural evolution of globalization and it will challenge their beliefs on homogeneity.  For Korea’s sake, I hope they embrace diversity and lead the Asian countries in embracing diversity.

For the full New York Times article, click here.

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