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Foreign brides challenge South Korean prejudices
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Choe Sang-Hun
International Herald Tribune
06-24-2005
Every month, hundreds of South Korean men fly to Vietnam, the Philippines, Mongolia, Nepal and Uzbekistan on special trips. An agent escorts each man to see many women in a single day, sometimes all gathered in the same hall. Like a judge in a beauty pageant, the man interviews the women, many of them 20 years younger than he is and makes a choice. The trip, for ''mail-order'' brides, has long been a fixture of life in Asia. Lonesome Japanese rice farmers in villages devoid of women have been finding brides this way for many years; so ...
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