Fake Agents Tricked Young Napalese Women Into Marriages With Elderly Korean Husbands

A flourishing racket 'in mail order brides' has come to light, in which young women from low-income Asian countries like Nepal are lured into marriages with men far older than them in relatively wealthy countries like South Korea. Recruitment agents and overseas marriage bureaus have been scouting Nepali women who are tricked into marriages with aged, and often alcoholic foreign husbands in South Korea. Nilambar Bodal who has been investigating such complaints said hundreds of Nepali women from the country's rural areas are trapped in Asian countries, especially South Korea, a country with a large number of overage or divorce men seeking re-marriage. More than 100,000 women among South Korea's 1.2 million foreign population are estimated to be foreign brides.