Status: Fake
About a week ago a touching scene took place in South Korea. A couple boarded a train and then proceeded to get married in front of all the passengers. The groom explained to everyone that he was too poor to pay for a proper ceremony, so he and his bride had decided to get married on a train instead. After the ceremony the crowd broke into wild applause, and pictures of the wedding (taken by a passenger with a cellphone) began to circulate on the internet.
But now it turns out that the scene
wasn't quite as romantic as it appeared. The couple were actually actors from the Theatre and Film Department at Hoseo University. Naturally, some people are annoyed by the deception. Mr Shin Jin-woo, who dreamed up and directed the performance, has issued a statement saying: "I sincerely apologise to subway passengers who believed the ceremony was real, as well as many Internet users who posted encouraging messages online. It was not our intention to deceive the public. We felt that it would be rude to the passengers at that time if we told them that the ceremony was not real, but just a play."
The part I don't understand is this: Why would being poor explain why the couple was getting married on a train? Surely it would have been cheaper for them to get married in a civil ceremony at town hall rather than arrange for someone to marry them on a train. I realize it was all an act, but their story doesn't strike me as being logical.
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About a week ago a touching scene took place in South Korea. A couple boarded a train and then proceeded to get married in front of all the passengers. The groom explained to everyone that he was too poor to pay for a proper ceremony, so he and his bride had decided to get married on a train instead. After the ceremony the crowd broke into wild applause, and pictures of the wedding (taken by a passenger with a cellphone) began to circulate on the internet.
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Heck, South Korea has 21 obligatory annual equivalents to Valentine's Day where couples should spend money on each other lest their families be embarrassed. Getting married in any way may get even more expensive.
Once the legal part is taken care of, Koreans will then arrange a more symbolic ceremony for families and friends, often similar to a western 'white' wedding to mark the occasion in a more grand and romantic fashion. Not surprisingly signing a piece of paper surrounded by a bunch of strangers in a government building does not register higly on the romance Richter Scale!
So the reason that the actor said he was too poor to afford a wedding was because he alledgedly could not afford the grander symbolic wedding. I speak from first hand experience having married a lovely Korean lady!