We know that Korean-American Alice Kim (Korean name: Kim Yong-gyeong) will marry Hollywood star Nicolas Cage in June. Kim¡¯s uncle, an executive at a credit agency, said in an interview with a Korean daily paper that, ¡°I understand that Alice Kim and Nicolas Cage will marry in June.¡± This marriage may be postponed, however; Cage is leaving for Africa in July to shoot his new film, ¡°Lord of War.¡±
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News scrap from U.K. tabloid The Sun (left) and Nicolas Cage & Alice Kim.
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Why are American film stars into Korean women? Kenny, an executive at a LA Koreatown broadcasting company, said in an interview with a Korean broadcaster that, ¡°Korean women are submissive and kind. They are known to make breakfast, lunch and dinner for their husbands, help their husbands well, and raise children well." There are also those who feel that in the eyes of Western men, East Asian women possess a sort of mysteriousness about them. They say that one can grow fond of the unknown ¡°Orient." 24-year-old James Cecil, an American living in Korea, said, ¡°Even Korean women who are not though of as pretty by Korean men can give a sense of mystery to Western men.¡± 29-year-old English teacher Mike Conforty said, ¡°Korean women are gentle, feminine and quiet. I think Korean women are the prettiest of all East Asian women.¡±
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Nikki Park & Wesley Snipes (left) and Woody Allen & Soon-yi Previn
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Western men also seem to find the purity and conservativeness of Korean women attractive. 25-year-old USFK soldier Blake Selesnew said, ¡°American women are too materialistic, but Korean women aren¡¯t. They seem less snobby.¡± Korea University English instructor Zane Ivy said, ¡°Korean women are conservative. They are conscience of what people around them think, depend on their families and parents and are submissive.¡±
Before Alice Kim and Nicolas Cage, other Hollywood couples with Korean women included Wesley Snipes and Nikki Park and Woody Allen and Soon-Yi Previn. Less well known was ¡°About Schmidt¡± director Alexander Payne¡¯s marriage last year to Korean-Canadian actress Sandra Oh. Meanwhile, Woody Allen attended a literature event last October in Frankfurt, Germany and said he would write an autobiography containing the story of how he split from long-time lover Mia Farrow and fell in love and married Farrow¡¯s adopted daughter Soon-Yi Previn.
(englishnews@chosun.com )
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