The other day I watched TV with my niece and caught one documentary. My niece loves all programs Korean. She went to Korea on a package tour with her family and the following year went to another part of the country with her own savings.
In that program, we followed the lives of 8 Vietnamese young ladies who went to Korea to marry their husbands. Among the 8, I remember one supermarket cashier, 2 restaurant workers, one farm assistant and one or two homemakers. It was quoted that for the past few years, an average of 7,000 over Vietnamese single ladies went to be married to Korean men.
I can't help but wonder, if so many women left Vietnam to get married to foreigners, would that mean that Vietnamese men have to seek wives from Laos or Cambodia? Well, perhaps in a stable society in my country, I see more unmarried women than men, especially from age 35 to 50. Let us say that mutual friends match make, a few of them get married to farmers in outback Australia or some lonely bachelors in Calgary, Canada. Such social "tampering" would not change the demographics much here.
But imagine that in a Vietnamese village of 5000 population, we have 80 girls who chose to marry some far off Koreans; suddenly there is a shortage of marriageable age women. Would that mean that some men remain single longer? Or widows get good marriage offers? Or maybe some men might end up marrying women a few years older than them? Would it simply mean that single men have to court women a few villages away?
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