Vietnamese people in South Korea

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Vietnamese people in South Korea consist mainly of migrant workers and women introduced to South Korean husbands through marriage agencies.^[1] In 1994, 20,493 labour migrants went from Vietnam to South Korea on traineeship visas; by 1997, this had risen by about 10% to 22,325. Migrants were mostly male and unskilled; they were employed in small and medium-sized companies in labour-intensive industries such as fishing and manufacturing.^[2] Spousal migration has a somewhat longer history; during the Vietnam War, some of the more than 300,000 South Korean soldiers and civilian support staff stationed in Vietnam married Vietnamese women and brought them back to Korea; however, many of these marriages ended in divorce.^[3] It would not become a large-scale phenomenon until the 1990s, when South Korean men unable to attract wives locally began to turn to marriage agencies to seek brides in overseas countries, including Vietnam; as of 2006, 5,000 Vietnamese brides immigrated to South Korea every year.^[4]^[5]

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^ Nguyen, Nhu (1999). The Reality: Vietnamese Migrant Workers in South Korea. Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam: Mobility Research and Support Center.
^ Iredale, Robin R.; Castles, Stephen; Hawksley, Charles (2003). Migration in the Asia Pacific: Population, Settlement and Citizenship Issues. Cheltenham, United Kingdom: Edward Elgar Publishing. ISBN 1840648600. See page 173.
^ Kagan, Richard C. "Disarming Memories: Japanese, Korean and American Literature on the Vietnam War". Hamline University.
^ Kelly, Tim. "Ho Chi Minh Money Trail", Forbes, 2006-09-18. Retrieved on March 27, 2007.
^ Onishi, Norimitsu. "Marriage brokers in Vietnam cater to S. Korean bachelors", International Herald Tribune, 2007-02-21. Retrieved on March 27, 2007.