South Koreans Seeking Foreign Brides

Entertainment News: South Koreans will search about the wedding in foreign and took it in their special education course. Calls for reform intensified last year, when a mentally disturbed man fatally stabbed his 20-year-old Vietnamese bride eight days after she arrived to live with him.The government has intensified monitoring of matchmaking agencies and expanded counselling for foreign wives.

From next month, prospective husbands will have to present a financial statement and verify their marital status, especially whether they had invited overseas brides more than twice in the past five years.Would-be grooms will have to take courses on international marriage.”Although the matter of marriage lies in the personal arena, false and speedy international marriages are intertwined with social problems,” ministry official Son Hong-Ki told Yonhap news agency.

South Korea, once a racially homogeneous society, is seeing more and more international marriages — especially by farmers as single Korean women move to the cities.One out of every 10 marriages in 2009, or 33,300 out of 309,759, were international marriages, mostly between Korean men and women from China, Vietnam and the Philippines. — (AFP)