article New York Times

Last week I've read in the New York Times an interesting article called " Reaching for a better life". It was about young Vietnamese women seeking Korean husbands. Since there is a lack of marriageable female Koreans, also due to the rising social status of women, the Korean men are looking for female partners in other countries, especially poorer countries like Vietnam.

It was a very shoking article, which made me start thinking of just how different the western and eastern cultures are. Those young women, some of them barely 18, go to Korea voluntarely to have a better life there and to marry a man who they've never seen before. Inconceivable for me.