Any advice with dating Korean girls in Korea?

I'm going to study abroad next semester, and I will be single. So, I wanted to know if you folks have any advice for dating korean girls, or any insight into the main differences between the way Korean and American girls act. Thanks for your help.

Public Comments

1. If you are caucasian and handsome and tall. You just having a coffee in the Korean Starbucks. so Korean girs will come to you and say to you in very short english such as "Hey, where r u from?". Then you say english very long . so that korean girl just to be yours.
2. flash your money everywhere
3. gig, you claim that you are Korean but I have my doubt on that or you just don't know Korean girls. jingyo too though that might apply to few 'golddiggers' haha To answer this question, just be yourself, act nice & care the girl you are interested only! It's really same for any girls really. The difference? We like to talk a lot! So prepare to listen and give advice on certain things! Wouldn't language barrier be a problem for you? I suggest you learn the basic culture and language before you go there. ^^ Have fun!
4. have a lot of money.
5. This generalization that Korean girls are gold diggers are seriously getting on my nerves. Sure, Asian girls go for the green card when they're in a thrid world country so they could go to America, but not in Korea. Koreans don't have any problems in immigrating to America, and they don't need some guy to help them get out of their country. Plus, Korea is a first world country and most of them are pretty successful. If you wanna score Korean girls you have to be 100% respectful and approach them with some knowledge about Korea's culture and language. Korean girls love it when guys do that.
6. actually, you need a load of money to be granted any sort of documents granted to live in America. It isn't as easy as some may think. It's probably easier to marry a US citizen.
7. My poor uncle from Korea without a job came to America alone. That means Koreans do not need to marry a random American to get a green card. That is what happens in poorer countries. But I guarantee you, if you respect the girls and get to know the Korean culture, you will get one.
8. This is my opinion. Please understand before reading it that it's very hard to write about dating Korean girls without pissing someone off. Either some nationalistic Korean guy is going to slam me, or some feminist is going to slam me, or some alpha male ex-marine is going to slam me. So just know that in advance. I can't please everybody with my answer. My single biggest piece of advice is this -- don't assume a girl likes you just because she's laughing and cheery and trying to practice her English with you. Number of times that's happened to me -- at least 1,000. I'm not exaggerating. It happens often several times a day, and I've lived in Korea for almost five years. Number of actual girlfriends I've had in Korea -- three. That's averaging about one per year in my adult life. Number of actual girlfriends I've had in Korea, who, after breaking up with, I still think were decent people -- one. Don't even assume she likes you just because she gave you her phone number. I cannot tell you how many times a girl has given me her number (sometimes without me even asking), and then she thinks it's just a big language exchange. Don't misunderstand. So in other words, you might feel like an absolute rock star or millionaire at first, but once you start trying to date any of the cute girls who practices her English with you, she'll probably run like hell! Don't take it personally. You will not be the first foreign guy to think things are great for a few weeks or months, only to realize the truth! There are lots of guys in the army, English teachers, etc. who talk about how "easy" Korean girls are, but I have a challenge for those guys -- I bet not one of them can actually bring a girl home if we hit five different bars or clubs in one night. Because I've hit the bars and clubs with GIs, English teachers, foreign exchange students, etc. plenty of times, and never seen a guy (no matter how handsome or rich he is) go home with a girl. Never. Generally the guys who do well in Korea are either: 1) Either Mormon or military. They tend to have conservative conceptions of gender roles that go well with what Korean women expect. These guys often end up in long-term relationships with Korean women or marry them. Especially in the case of the Mormons, these guys are willing to go months or years without sex, which is exactly in line with what many prudish Korean women want. OR 2) Have lots of money. I hear one of the founders of Yahoo! has a penthouse in Gangnam and has quite a bit of fun. Some people earlier in this thread have said Korean girls are not gold diggers, because Korea is not a third world country. Korea is not a third world country, true, but Korean girls are MUCH more interested in your paycheck than western girls are. In fact, there's a Korean expression you should know -- "남자의 능력" -- "a man's proficiency," which means how much money he makes. That's how most women seem to choose their men. 취집 is another expression you should know -- "getting a job in a house" -- when a woman becomes a housewife just for the money, because she can't/doesn't want to do other work. OR 3) Constantly on the prowl. Playing it as a numbers game. Guys like this flirt with every girl they come across. Spend all day getting numbers and contacting them. They know that even though only 5% of Korean girls are willing to date them, all they have to do is make serious advances to 20 girls and they'll be successful. These guys are scumbags.
9. Dude girls in the world are the same basically. If you are nice enough, who wouldn't be with you? One thing, Koreans do care about fashion as far as I know. I've seen some Korean women saying "Americans are fashion disasters"