Korean Personality Matching Site Offers Bilingual Service
By John Redmond
Contributing Writer
In today's race to stay ahead of the hustle and bustle of everyday living, one's social life often comes in a distant second place. Getting the chance to meet that special someone has also turned out to more of a challenge than in previous years.
Adding to this mix, problems associated with being in a foreign country such as language barriers, one can't but feel the whole prospect of being invited to a party and mixing with people of similar interests, and being able to communicate, will never happen here in Korea.
With the Internet some of these problems seemed to have been ironed out due to the nature of its worldwide access, however, personal contact is still an issue as anyone can pretend to be anyone in cyberspace.
A company named Couple.net by Sunoo, a patented personality matching site unveiled an English-Korean bilingual version of their web site, allowing English-speaking Korean-Americans to join and search for profiles on their own.
In markets such as Korea, the U.S. and Canada, where International singles and 1.5 to 2nd generation Korean-American singles are busy with their careers, dependable matchmaking and specialized matching services are in great demand.
``It's all about finding a compatible partner with similar backgrounds. Clients don't need help meeting women or men. They need a shortcut to the right woman or man,'' says Sunoo CEO Lee Woong-jin.
According to information provided by the company, Seoul-based Sunoo, Inc. was founded by Lee in 1991 and is the original upscale personal matchmaking service in South Korea. It has invested over 10 years to developing scientific methods of matching singles seeking ideal relationships. Its services, now available in the United States, Canada, and Korea, present users with compatible matches based on members' personal backgrounds and ``scientifically proven'' methods to accomplish highly successful matches.
``Being in the business for over 19 years, we take our membership needs very seriously. We even do background checks,'' said Erica Oh, global consultant.
Sunoo now provides online self-matching, semi-personalized matching and consultant matching services from amongst 2,000 pre-screened overseas singles and 40,000 Korean singles.
``Just visit Couple.net, sign up, complete a questionnaire, submit identification, and you are all set,'' said Oh.
Oh said that there are plans to host a huge party within the next few months.
For more information visit the web site at www.couple.net