South Korea Makes New Rules for International Marriages

Tens of thousands of South Korean men have married foreign women over the past decade. According to government statistics, however, many of those marriages have ended in divorce. The South Korean government is trying to change that.   Lee Soo-yeon is a Vietnamese migrant bride who now goes by her Korean name. The 36-year old works as a translator at a center for immigrant women in Asan, a city 48 kilometers south of Seoul. She said her six-year marriage to a Korean man did not go so...

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