a 2016 article in the sungkyun times said that there used to be a trend among filipino women to put their hopes in the idea of the "korean dream" whereby they could better their situation by marrying a korean man, but the news article said that filipino women's hope came to be replaced by "disappointment and hatred" toward south korea as the filipino women saw the pattern of korean men abandoning filipino women and their kopino kids again and again over the years. due to the increasing number of kopinos, the 2016 news article said that the kopino issue has resulted in anti-korean sentiment in the philippines.