I was informed that one of the more popular things you can do on the internet in Korea is to provide you with a fake parent, a fake boyfriend or fiance, or a fake son or daughter.  These are ordinary people who acts as stand ins to make a few extra money.

Getting a ‘phony’ parent to make a phone call to the teacher would cost $30, and getting him to visit the school would cost $100.

Another one of the things that is happening to China, because of the one child policy, is that there are now more boys than girls.  Boys are more priced than girls, and parents go to lengths to insure that their only child is a boy, including, as I am told forced abortion when they know that the coming baby is a girl.  According to statistics, 110 boys were born for every 100 girls in 2000, and this has increased to 118 boys for every 100 girls born in 2005.