Kopino Children: Half Korean, Half Filipino, FatherlessPosted in Articles, Asian Diaspora, Media Archive on 2018-03-14 21:18Z by Steven |
Kopino Children: Half Korean, Half Filipino, Fatherless
Korea Exposé
2017-12-07
 Cover image: Filipino mother holding Kopino child (Source: KBS 1 documentary “Searching for Runaway Father“) |
Kristi, 23, met a South Korean man in the city of Makati, Philippines, through a blind date. “It 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.”
But things didn’t work out for Kristi: Shortly after their break-up, she realized she was pregnant. “He told me ‘Don’t worry I’m here for you, I won’t leave you,’ but one month before giving birth, he just disappeared.”
It’s 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…
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