We sometimes saw the banner “You Can Get Married Vietnamese Women by Only Seven Million Won.” Whenever I see these banners, I’m impressed that Vietnamese Woman was considered as goods by Koreans. I think that these advertisements by the company giving unmarried men interviews with prospective brides have serious problems.  

These days, the marriages between unmarried men who are living in the country and doing farming and women from Southeast Asia are drastically increasing because Korean women are reluctant to get married men who are doing farming. In the process of it, the company for international marriage helps them to meet each other.  

These companies treat completely them with the commercial value. In other words, the industry like others is also mercenary. There are so many sites for intermarriage on the Internet. It means that the industry is highly competitive.  

In order to draw people’s attention, therefore, they tend to use the sensational banners: “Vietnamese women are much more obedient to their husbands than others” or “Filipinas are good for children from the educational standpoint because they are good at English.”  

These things contain male-dominated perspective that looks upon women as instruments for giving birth to children and taking care of children. Also, these regard women from Southeast Asia as Korean men’s property. Therefore, such banners have two discriminations: sexual discrimination and racial discrimination.