Thanks for your reply Nicola. It’s been about a year now and while I do still occasionally use the amwf tag I’m much more apt to using 국제커플(International Couple) tag these days. It’s definitely made a difference in the type of people I’ve come in contact with and simplifies things a great deal. I see where you’re coming from and it’s a very touchy subject in any case. I hope all is well with you and your husband! Are you still in Korea? I miss it quite a bit.

Thank you 🙂

However, discovering the AMWF tag opened up a whole new world of blogs and bloggers and I don’t regret cyber-meeting any of them. There is room for all the stories, whatever the hashtag might be.

There are plenty of ways to find similar couples without using the tag though. Especially using Korean culture as a starting point to find other couples.
There is something quite problematic about using race characteristics to find other people. As white women we come from a position of privilege, while the narrative of Asian men has always been controlled and skewed by white media. We need to be very aware of our own backgrounds and histories and how that can play into our own relationships and whether we are furthering that discrimination of Asian men by inadvertently by using such hashtags. Many people who use them are not just trying to find other couples, mostly it’s for clicks and likes and it’s caring more about that exposure, and in some circles even showing off, than respecting a relationship.