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Chinese Make Up Lion's Share Of Foreign Wives In Korea

March 01, 2011 posted by Steve Brownstein

Chinese women took up the largest portion of foreign wives married to Korean men in 2009, government data said. According to Statistics Korea, a total of 11,364 Chinese women married Korean men in 2009, while 7,249 Vietnamese and 1,643 Filipina women walked down the aisle with Korean men in the same year.

They were followed by Japanese, Cambodian, Thai, American and Mongolian wives, numbering 1,140, 851, 496, 416 and 386 people, respectively, the state-run statistics agency said.

The number of international marriages has been on the rise for  years.