Vietnamese brides' true feelings... ”I'm patient to get Korean citizenship”

In an interview with a local Vietnamese media outlet, Vietnamese wives with Korean husbands said, "Many women marry Korean men in order to obtain Korean nationality."
On the 5th (local time), the Vietnamese online media VN Express discussed the side effects of international marriage through an interview with a Vietnamese wife with a Korean husband.
Through a matchmaking service, a 20-year-old Vietnamese woman, Ms. A, checked the personal information and backgrounds of 20 Korean men and chose her partner.
After six months of paperwork for her marriage visa and learning Korean, she went to Korea and married her 47-year-old husband.
Her goal changed to getting divorced after she obtained Korean citizenship and was able to legally work and live there. At first, she sincerely wanted to get married, but her husband's fertility issues due to his advanced age were becoming an obstacle to her married life.
"The hospital told me it would be difficult to get pregnant because of my husband's age," she said, "but my husband insists it's my fault."
In addition, Ms. A has difficulty communicating due to her speech impediment, and the only time she goes out is to go to the supermarket. She is silent even when she is with her husband.
"The only communication we had was through a translator," said A, adding that the isolation and homesickness caused her to cry every night.
B said, "I'm thinking of marriage as a way to obtain (Korean) citizenship within two or three years, and I don't intend to live together forever."
"I don't feel any love for my husband, I feel irritable and stressed every day, and this is having side effects on my mental health."
Under South Korean law, a woman who immigrates to South Korea through marriage can apply for South Korean citizenship if she has been married to a South Korean man for two years.
In 2019, when the residence status of divorced migrant women was expanded, some Vietnamese women who married Koreans
The media reported that they are enduring a difficult life with the goal of getting divorced in Vietnam. In this situation, a local matchmaking agency said that there are many cases where people use marriage to obtain Vietnamese citizenship.
The number of marriages between Vietnamese women and Vietnamese men who have naturalized in Korea is increasing.
According to data from the Korea National Statistical Office, there were 5,000 marriages between Korean women and foreign men last year, up 7.5%, while there were 792 marriages between Korean women and Vietnamese men, up 35.2%.
As of 2022, of the 556 Korean women who remarried Vietnamese men, 482 (86.7%) were naturalized Koreans. Of these, 480 were pre-naturalized Koreans, excluding two whose nationality was difficult to confirm.
It was found that all of the women were Vietnamese. The majority of Korean women who married Vietnamese men married Korean men, acquired Korean nationality, then divorced and remarried Vietnamese men.
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