For my entire life I’ve obsessively watched South Korean television dramas, or K-dramas.
A certain type of man does tend to appear in romantic K-dramas. They’re usually depicted as well-groomed, romantic and gentle — a type of masculinity that’s sometimes called “soft” masculinity.Some women say they’re drawn to Korean celebrities like singer and actor Cha Eun-Woo who they say exude a ‘soft masculinity.’Some of the tourists did, in fact, find their ideal partners, marrying and settling in South Korea.
A Spanish woman I interviewed broke up with her Korean boyfriend shortly after returning to Spain. “You have given me nothing but pain,”Other tourists left South Korea utterly dejected: The men they met weren’t anything like the K-drama actors they’d seen on TV. 'Romantic,' 'gentle,' 'handsome,' 'knights in shining armour' are just some of the terms that the tourists used to describe their idealised Korean man
Interestingly, regardless of whether they left the country only partially satisfied or demoralised, many of the women I interviewed were steadfast about their desire to one day fall in love with a Korean man. They believed that they were simply unlucky this time around — that there still existed the possibility of meeting the perfect man during a future visit to South Korea.
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