A South Korean man who deceived his Filipino partner by claiming to live in Pyongyang is one of several fathers recently exposed for refusing or failing to pay child maintenance after escaping to their home country.
The identities of these defaulters were revealed by Koo Bon-chang, an activist and founder of “Bad Fathers”, a website that publishes personal details of parents who dodge child support, in a bid to trace them.
“We are looking for fathers who each left for Korea after having a daughter born in 2010, a son born in 2014, and a daughter born in 2018,” Koo said in a social media post last week.
According to him, a child of Korean and Filipino heritage born in 2018 could not afford medical care due to financial hardship.
One of the men reportedly told the child’s mother that he lived in the North Korean capital, Koo added. He became a father while pursuing a course in the Philippines before bolting to South Korea.
The activist, who renamed his website “Rights of Child” in 2021, shared a message from the mother appealing for help.
