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[Kepler]

�By June this year, there were around 100,000 foreign brides living in Korea, most of them Chinese, Vietnamese, and Philippine.�
http://www.thanhniennews.com/society/?catid=3&newsid=31471

�In 2005, marriages to foreigners accounted for 14 percent of all marriages in South Korea, up from 4 percent in 2000��The widespread availability of sex-screening technology for pregnant women since the 1980s has resulted in the birth of a disproportionate number of South Korean males. What is more, South Korea�s growing wealth has increased women�s educational and employment opportunities, even as it has led to rising divorce rates and plummeting birthrates�..�Nowadays, Korean women have higher standards,� said Lee Eun-tae, the owner of Interwedding, an agency that last year matched 400 Korean bachelors with brides from Vietnam, China, the Philippines, Mongolia, Thailand, Cambodia, Uzbekistan and Indonesia. �If a man has only a high school degree, or lives with his mother, or works only at a small- or medium-size company, or is short or older, or lives in the countryside, he�ll find it very difficult to marry in Korea.�
Critics say the business demeans and takes advantage of poor women. But brokers say they are merely matching the needs of Korean men and foreign women seeking better lives.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/22/world/asia/22brides.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1

In the past, Koreans have been very proud of their racial purity, but it looks like things may be changing.

[sojourner1]

Yes, I understand in the past 5 years, Korean men are importing (buying) other women from poor Asian countries in order to get a woman due to a shortage in Korea!!! The options are extremely limited if you're not rich despite there being beautiful women all over Korea. There are probably many more men than women here which is clearly visible in everyday life and the women are looking for who has the most material wealth they can get. Korea is like a fish bowl with a restrictive limited inbound flow of people and everything else sorta like an island, but a little of this and that gets in when money talks. I wonder what Taiwan is like? Probably a boring fishbowl full of rice wine drinking and cigarette smoking men who are trying to import what they so desire!

[Typhoon]

I think it is great that there are more Koreans marrying foreigners.

[jaganath69]

[Young FRANKenstein]

[jaganath69]