Kopino
Kopino (
Background
A Filipino delegate at the 2005 international conference of
There are also Filipino
Comparison to Lai Dai Han
A 2016 article in The Sungkyun Times said that Kopinos are referred to as the "New Lai Dai Han",[8] and a 2013 article in The Granite Tower said that Kopinos are considered to be the "second version of Lai Dai Han".[9]
Kopino population
A 2008 article in The Korea Times said that there may have been 10,000 Kopinos in 2008, in comparison to around 200,000 Japinos and 50,000 Ameripinos.[10]
The 2008 news article also said that it was estimated that there were 1,000 Kopinos in 2003.[5]
A 2011 article in
The 'Mixed Filipino Heritage Act of 2020' estimated there were 30,000 Kopinos.[12]
Profile of the parents of Kopinos
Profile of the Korean fathers
A 2016 article in The Sungkyun Times said that "the most important" factor that was causing more Kopinos to be fathered by Korean men was that the Korean men were deceiving the Filipino women about their intentions to have a future together with the Filipino women. The 2016 article said that 90% of the Korean fathers of Kopinos were students who were in their twenties.[8]
South Korean television network
A 2016 article in The Korea Times said that
Profile of the Filipino mothers
In a 2016 article in The Sungkyun Times, 80% of Filipinos are Catholics, and Catholics are supposedly discouraged from using artificial contraceptives and abortion. This religious factor of Filipino women contributed to the increase of Kopinos. The article said that 90% of the Filipino mothers of Kopinos who had talked to the We Love Kopino organization were women who worked by teaching English or doing some other type of work that did not involve prostitution. The article said that this high percentage of non-prostitutes was contrary to the idea that the majority of the Filipino mothers of Kopinos were prostitutes.[8]
South Korean television network
Korean men soliciting prostitutes
South Korean television network
Views of the issue
A 2015 article in
In a 2013 article in The Korea Times, an official of a Filipino woman's organization stated that "Filipinos believe that all Korean men are turning Filipino women into victims. This could increase anti-Korean sentiments in the Philippines."[16]
A 2013 article in The Granite Tower said that collective anger towards Korean men who had abandoned their Kopino children in the Philippines had definitely created anti-Korean sentiment in the Philippines as of 2013.[9]
A 2016 article in The Sungkyun Times said that there was formerly a trend among Filipino women to invest in the concept of a "Korean Dream", where they could potentially improve their situation by marrying a Korean man in the hopes of moving to Korea. However, the news article stated that this hope was gradually replaced by "disappointment and hatred" towards South Korea as a while, due to the aforementioned Filipino women witnessing the pattern of Korean men abandoning them and their Kopino children over the years. Due to the increasing number of Kopinos, the 2016 news article said that the Kopino issue has resulted in an increase of anti-Korean sentiment in the Philippines.[8]
Response
Website to find Kopino fathers
Goo Bon-chang was a man who created a website in April 2015 that had pictures and other identifying information posted on it about Korean fathers who had abandoned their Kopino children to help find the Korean father. The website got its pictures from a civic group which received the pictures from Filipino mothers of abandoned Kopino children. The website creator said that some people were threatening to sue him for privacy invasion, but he doubted that they could sue him, because he felt that abandoning Kopino children was worse than what he was doing by exposing them for it. From April 2015 to January 2016, 30 Kopino children found their Korean father as a result of the 42 pictures of Korean fathers on the website.[17]
A 2016 article in The Korea Times said that a lawyer said that the website did not break South Korean law, because the website was defaming the Korean fathers of abandoned Kopino children "in pursuit of the public interest" while other lawyers claimed that the website broke South Korean law.[18]
South Korean citizenship for Kopinos
A 2016 article in The Sungkyun Times said that some advocates for Kopinos think that the South Korean government should do something for Kopinos in a similar way to what the Japanese government did for Japinos in the past when the Japino issue became a big issue. The Japanese government gave the Filipino women of Japino children money for living expenses, and the Japanese government gave the Filipino women of Japino children the ability to become Japanese citizens.[8]
A 2015 article in The Granite Tower said that Han Moon-gi, chairman of the Korea Kopino Association, said that the South Korean government should handle the Kopino issue like the Japanese government handled the Japino issue. The Japanese government helped Japinos get jobs, it helped Japinos with education, it helped Japinos with welfare and it allowed Japinos to get Japanese citizenship.[19]
A 2012 article in
Multicultural Family Support denied
A 2015 article in The Dong-a Ilbo said that Kopinos could not benefit from South Korea's Multicultural Family Support Law, because Kopinos did not have South Korean nationality.[21]
Child support rulings
A Korean man was ordered to pay child support in a landmark South Korean court ruling involving a Kopino child that happened on June 22, 2014. The South Korean government paid 10,000,000 won to get the DNA of the two Kopino sons tested, and the South Korean court forced the Korean man under threat of legal penalties to get his DNA tested too.
A 2016 article in The Hankyoreh said that another paternity court ruling in South Korea that involved a Kopino child happened on May 28, 2015. In the 2015 ruling, the Korean man was ordered by the South Korean court to pay 500,000 won (US$450) every month for each of his two Kopino sons until the Kopino sons became adults and to pay an additional 20,000,000 won (US$17,800) in back child support.[24]
South Korean lawmakers meeting
A 2013 article in ABS-CBN said that on December 21, 2012,
Book by university students
A 2017 article in The Hankyoreh said that a group of 7 students from
Urgency of the issue
A 2016 article in The Korea Times said that the South Korean government claimed that the numerous murders of Koreans in the Philippines was an issue that was more urgent than the "half-breed" Kopino babies issue.[14]
Media
Singaporean English news agency
A 2012 article in ABS-CBN said that
South Korean television network MBC did a news story about an 18-year-old Filipino woman who said that she was raped by a Korean man in his thirties when she was 17 years old, an encounter that resulted in her Kopino child. The Filipino woman said that the Korean man promised her Filipino parents that he would pay child support if she promised not to sue him. The Filipino woman said that the Korean man then fled to South Korea and never returned.[13]
South Korean television network SBS did a video that was published on July 6, 2014, on their YouTube channel where they interviewed a Filipino mother of three Kopino children. The Filipino mother was referring to the children's father when she said, "He said wait for me, just waiting, and I'm busy in Korea, sometimes busy, so I can't telephone. I'm waiting only, but, I believe him. I really believe him, their father... The difficult things that came to us is sometimes my children seek very hard..."[28]
South Korean television network KBS did a video that was published on August 16, 2015, on their YouTube channel where they interviewed a Filipino mother of a Kopino child. The Filipino mother was referring to the child's father when she said, "And he said, no, I'm very serious. I'm not like other Korean guy, study in Cebu. I'm very, very serious, and this time is, uh, not true... He send me money, fifteen thousand for the hospital bill. And he said, um, he come back after the problem solved with his, uh, mother. But, after that, no... In my opinion, posting picture is a good idea, if, uh, there is no other way to find his, uh, her father."[29]
A 2015 article in The Granite Tower said that Han Moon-gi, chairman of the Korea Kopino Association, an association to help Kopinos, said that his association got volunteers and supporters due to media coverage of the Kopino issue, and Han said that media coverage is important for helping Kopinos.[19]
A 2009 news article in The Sookmyung Times said that the Yomiuri Shimbun, a Japanese newspaper, did a broadcast about the Kopino issue in 2008, and The Sookmyung Times said that the Japanese newspaper's portrayal of the issue derided Korean men and portrayed the Kopino issue in a negative way. The Sookmyung Times said that the Japanese broadcast caused South Korea to lose its national image and lose its confidence.[4]
Lives of Kopinos
A 2009 news article said that a Kopino male whose Korean father abandoned his Filipino mother when she got pregnant used his fist to beat up on a picture of his Korean father to show how much he hated his Korean father.[4]
A 2009 news article said that Kopinos without a legal father could not enroll in school in the Philippines, because a legal father was needed to provide a name in the Filipino
A 2009 news article said that Kopinos were not considered to be Filipinos in the Philippines, it said that they were discriminated against by employers in the Philippines, and it said that they were the "laughingstock" of their Filipino playmates while growing up in the Philippines.[4]
A 2014 article in The Philippine Star said that "some" Kopinos do "video and Internet porn".[30]
A 2015 article in Bangor Daily News said that many Kopinos become prostitutes.[15]
A 2016 article in The Korea Times said that Kopinos "often" become involved in prostitution or organized crime.[14]
Kopinos in popular culture
In the
See also
- Prostitution in South Korea
- KoreKorea, girls in Kiribati who are paid for sex by Korean males.
- Lai Đại Hàn, Prostitution and rape by Korean soldiers in Vietnam.
References
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- ^ 이, 하나 (2014-07-31), "'코피노', 뒤틀린 성문화가 낳은 비극", 여성신문, retrieved 2015-04-06
- ^ a b Hicap, Jonathan M. (2009-11-11), "'Kopinos' Search for Korean Dads", The Korea Times, retrieved 2010-05-10
- ^ a b c d e Park, Kim Haena. Our Children, Korean + Philippine = Kopino. (2009). Sookmyung Times. link
- ^ a b Ha, Michael. (2008). Outreach Services Planned for Korean-Filipino Children. The Korea Times. Retrieved November 13, 2016, from link.
- ^ "No way home for Filipino 'Amerasians'". Al Jazeera. 25 April 2014.
- ^ "Filipino Amerasians dadagsa; pati Japinos, Kopinos, Chipinos". The Philippine STAR. November 24, 2014.
- ^ a b c d e Kopino: Can I Find My Father? (2016). The Sungkyun Times. Retrieved November 11, 2016, from link
- ^ a b Yu, Dong-kyun. (2013). History Repeats Itself. The Granite Tower. Retrieved November 12, 2016, from link
- ^ Henson, Paul (July 30, 2014). "After Amerasians and Japinos, who are Kopinos?". ABS CBN News. p. 1. Retrieved October 7, 2022.
- Sun.Star Cebu. There is a March 15, 2011, snapshot of the web page at the Wayback Machine.
- ^ "MIXED FILIPINO HERITAGE ACT OF 2020".
- ^ a b c d Philippines: Korean Sex Tourists Leave Fatherless Kids Behind. (2013). Link TV World News. Retrieved November 14, 2016, from link Archived 2016-11-15 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ a b c Kim, Se-jeong. (2016). Kopino mom's fight to get son a life. The Korea Times. link
- ^ a b Freeman, Angela. (2015). 10,000 Korean Children Born to Filipina Prostitutes. Bangor Daily News. Retrieved November 12, 2016, from link Archived 2016-11-13 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ 20,000 'Kophinos' abandoned in Philippines. (2013). The Korea Times. Retrieved November 12, 2016, from link
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- ^ a b Kim, Se-jeong. (2016). Activist for Kopino faces defamation charges. The Korea Times. Retrieved November 11, 2016, from link
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- Yonhap News Agency. Retrieved November 12, 2016, from link
- ^ Two court rulings win child support for 'Kopino' kids. (2015). The Hankyoreh. Retrieved November 11, 2016, from link
- ^ Banta, Rigoberto Jr. (2013). Pinoy scholars share holiday spirit with 'Kopino' kids. ABS-CBN. Retrieved November 16, 2016, from link
- ^ Park, Im-keun. (2017). University students make a book to document importance of Kopino children. The Hankyoreh. Retrieved April, 2017, from link.
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- ^ 아빠를 찾습니다. 코피노의 눈물 @모닝와이드 140707. (2014). SBS Culture. Retrieved November 16, 2016, from link
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- ^ "당신만이 내 사랑 (You Are The Only One)". Dramatic Eye. Archived from the original on 2018-12-19. Retrieved 2018-12-19.