Korea's forced marriage
By Jason LimForced marriage usually refers to the tradition whereby a young man and woman are arranged to be married to each other without regard for their personal preferences because of advantageous family ties. They don't even have to know each other. Most likely, they wouldn't meet until they were sitting across from one another during the marriage ceremony. In fact, until Korea's modern age post-1945, this was the mainstream means to marriage, especially for the upper class.Well, Korean courts recently handed down a ruling that gives forced marriage a new definition. Hong Sang-soo, a well-known movie director, has been in a years-long, very public extramarital affair with a famous actress, Kim Min-hee. They met on the set of some movie they worked on, and the rest is history. A director having an affair with the lead actress isn't exactly shocking. What's surprising is that they have gone on to make several more movies together and are apparently together and still very much in love. So, this state of affairs would naturally lead Hong to want to officially end his marriage and,
