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International Marriages: the

Need for Understanding and

Respect                                             Jung Ah-hyeon

  Most people have heard of international           shocked the Korean people. The Korea Women's
marriages at least once. International marriage     Rights Center estimates that more than 20
refers to the marriage between a man and            migrant women have died due to violence carried
a woman of different nationalities. In Korea,       out by their husbands. Amid the growing trend of
international marriages often refer to marriages    international marriage, the treatment of married
between Korean men and foreign women,               migrant women in our society needs to improve
although it can also refer to marriages between     systematically.
Korean women and foreign men.
                                                      Vietnam accounts for the largest number of
  Some of these can be unhealthy though as a        foreign spouses in Korea. Vietnam has been
video showing a Vietnamese immigrant woman          number one for the past three years, while
being indiscriminately1) assaulted by her husband   China and the United States have ranked second
in front of her two-year-old son on July 4th, 2019  and third. The number of Korean men who had

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      1) indiscriminately 무비판적으로, 무분별하게

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