The so-called “wedding information” companies are increasingly unpopular for doing the opposite of what they claim to do; they are supposed to help people to knot, but in fact they are good at unknotting burgeoning relationships.
According to the local daily, Chosun Ilbo, Saturday, a 36-year-old single male, identified only as “A,” signed up with a wedding information agency earlier this year after its repeated phone calls and persuasion, including an offer of “exemption” of the registration fee, 3 million won.
A graduate of Seoul National University, he works for a foreign firm in Seoul that pays him a very good financial package. He’s also from a wealthy family. He is good-looking, too.
He soon became popular. The company also took advantage of his popularity, too. He had become the company’s valuable asset.
The firm often arranged female clients, who often complained about “poor service” of the company, to meet him.
It certainly had an impact. The female clients, who are usually in their 30s, professional, desperate for marriage, yet also demanding, had their ego “massaged” after meeting with the asset. They stopped complaining.
Then, in one of such meetings, “A” finally met a woman, three years younger than him, 33. He felt in love with her immediately, who runs a private educational institute, commonly known in Korea as Hagwon.
She was beautiful and intelligent, too. The chemistry was mutual. In their third meeting, they had sex. He felt he finally found “the one” with whom he would spend the rest of his life. The bliss didn’t last.
The company continued to introduce new women to him, which he duly rejected. But what he didn’t know was that the company was introducing new men to her as well.
Through the company’s introduction, she met another “asset,” with whom she had sex in their second meeting. She liked this second man. And it led to ditching the first one, breaking A’s heart.
What was even more damaging to A was that the man who “stole” his lover happened to be one of his best friends, whom he has known since college. Shocked and devastated, “A” is receiving psychological treatment.
Korea has over 2,000 “marriage information” agencies. Most of their paid clients are females, who are well past their “prime age” for marriage, usually in their 30s. To become a member of a wedding information firm, a female client pays up to 10 million won.
These women become the main clients who turn to the companies desperately, yet belatedly, to find the “knight in shining armor.”
Often, they are also too ambitious, seeking to meet good-looking, tall, rich, professional men who are still single. Unfortunately, there are not many of them still around.
The matchmaking companies therefore tend to introduce multiple women to one sought-after asset (Or, sometimes the other way around; multiple men to a single woman). “A” turned out be a victim of such practice.
The report said that part of the problem lies in these women, not just the companies, pointing out that many of these women use the service to “upgrade” their social status by meeting with a high-class man in the social class pyramid.
According to the local daily, Chosun Ilbo, Saturday, a 36-year-old single male, identified only as “A,” signed up with a wedding information agency earlier this year after its repeated phone calls and persuasion, including an offer of “exemption” of the registration fee, 3 million won.
A graduate of Seoul National University, he works for a foreign firm in Seoul that pays him a very good financial package. He’s also from a wealthy family. He is good-looking, too.
He soon became popular. The company also took advantage of his popularity, too. He had become the company’s valuable asset.
The firm often arranged female clients, who often complained about “poor service” of the company, to meet him.
It certainly had an impact. The female clients, who are usually in their 30s, professional, desperate for marriage, yet also demanding, had their ego “massaged” after meeting with the asset. They stopped complaining.
Then, in one of such meetings, “A” finally met a woman, three years younger than him, 33. He felt in love with her immediately, who runs a private educational institute, commonly known in Korea as Hagwon.
She was beautiful and intelligent, too. The chemistry was mutual. In their third meeting, they had sex. He felt he finally found “the one” with whom he would spend the rest of his life. The bliss didn’t last.
The company continued to introduce new women to him, which he duly rejected. But what he didn’t know was that the company was introducing new men to her as well.
Through the company’s introduction, she met another “asset,” with whom she had sex in their second meeting. She liked this second man. And it led to ditching the first one, breaking A’s heart.
What was even more damaging to A was that the man who “stole” his lover happened to be one of his best friends, whom he has known since college. Shocked and devastated, “A” is receiving psychological treatment.
Korea has over 2,000 “marriage information” agencies. Most of their paid clients are females, who are well past their “prime age” for marriage, usually in their 30s. To become a member of a wedding information firm, a female client pays up to 10 million won.
These women become the main clients who turn to the companies desperately, yet belatedly, to find the “knight in shining armor.”
Often, they are also too ambitious, seeking to meet good-looking, tall, rich, professional men who are still single. Unfortunately, there are not many of them still around.
The matchmaking companies therefore tend to introduce multiple women to one sought-after asset (Or, sometimes the other way around; multiple men to a single woman). “A” turned out be a victim of such practice.
The report said that part of the problem lies in these women, not just the companies, pointing out that many of these women use the service to “upgrade” their social status by meeting with a high-class man in the social class pyramid.
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