I’ve been having a few computer problems so I can’t do this article justice with one of my snappy introductions/commentaries, but this is a subject I enjoy and that I’ve written about a couple times on here — Vietnamese women marrying Korean men.
This is an update on a story written last year by Norimitsu Onishi of […]

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One of my favorite articles from this past year was the February New York Times piece Korean Men Use Brokers to Find Brides in Vietnam written by Norimitsu Onishi.
It tells the story of two Korean men, Kim Wan-su and Kim Tae-goo, who, through matchmaking services, travel to Vietnam in search of brides. Anyone who’s lived in Korea more […]

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One of my favorite novels is Platform by Michael Houellebecq, which primarily centers around the the sex tourism industry in Thailand. I was excited by this idea, not because I neccesarily wanted to run and do it, but because Houellebecq’s narrator lays it out in such a frank but explicit way (to paraphrase): people travel, […]

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