Korean Fathers Who Impregnated Filipino Women Threaten To Sue Blog Runner For Divulging Their Identities Online
A blog administrator remains unfazed despite receiving threats for revealing the identities of Korean fathers who ran away and left their children in the Philippines after impregnating Filipino women.
Koo Bon Chang, a 54-year-old Korean man currently staying in the country, started the website We Love Kopino in April 2015. Not only has he received phone calls from women asking fo the whereabouts of their previous partners, but he has also been counting the threats of lawsuits from other South Korean men whose faces are posted in the website as the alleged fathers of Kopino children born out of wedlock.
"In fact, three people threatened to sue me," Koo divulged in an interview. "How could they? What they did to these children is incomparable to what I have done to them."
Kopino is reportedly making a stand in behalf of Korean-Filipino children. According to Korea Times, there are approximately 30,000 Kopino children in the Philippines who are mostly searching for their Korean fathers who left them sometime in their life.
It has been revealed that most of these deadbeat fathers who impregnated Filipino women were students and tourists on a vacation in the country. Reports also suggest that some of the factors slowing down the search for the said parents were due to incorrect information given by these men to their Filipino partners such as wrong addresses, names and age.
Koo was inspired to create an organization that would help Korean-Filipino children reunite with their parents after his close friend was also abandoned by her partner and left with nothing but fake information.
"I had a Filipina friend who was looking for the father of her Kopino son," said Koo in pity. "The father left her with a fake address. She had no means to find him, and I wanted to help her."
The website has helped the reunion of 30 families since its opening and has posted 42 names and other personal information about the alleged fathers along with their pictures.
Meanwhile, Korean netizens are fully supporting the founding of the civic group commenting, "I hope they find their fathers soon," and "Cheer up! They're deadbeat dads, but I hope they are found ASAP" as reported by Korea Bang.
Koo relayed that he feels that his campaign is completely justified despite the privacy infringement accusations and threats. He also made it a mission to update the list to reveal more Kopino fathers who left their Filipino women partner to raise their children alone.