THE TONIC OF GINSENG THE TONIC OF GINSENG

THE TONIC OF GINSENG

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Seoul, Korea, 2016 - Leica M7, Summilux 35, Kodak Portra 160 * South Korea, along with Taiwan, has been regarded as one of the major destinations of marriage migrants since the 1990s. Thousands of Vietnamese brides move to South Korea every year, lured by the promise of wealthy husbands, good jobs and a better life. Instead, many find the language barriers, loneliness and homesickness too much to bear and return home divorced and empty handed. The mercenary nature of international marriages arranged by brokers makes it difficult for Korean men to regard their foreign spouses as being their equals, which contributes to emotional and physical abuse The reason why South Korean society hasn’t regulated international marriage brokers reflects the tendency to regard women as a breeding tool in an era of low birthrates. Facing a similar issue in the 1980s, Japan tried to arrange marriages for the children of farmers by bringing in women from the Philippines.


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