I’m not really sure where to even start with this blog, but I found an article in the Chosun Ilbo about how Cambodia is temporarily banning women marrying Korean men due to wife trafficking. It basically says that Koreans account for 60% of the international Cambodian marriages.
So, I was curious and googled mail order brides and found this one website among many pages of them and look, you can get a bride from many countries, not just Cambodia.
Just to make things more interesting I looked it up on wikipedia. Mail order brides dates back to the 18th century. It says that today it is so popular because men need a woman for “companionship and to fill the domestic role.” The benefits stated for the women have to do with a better life and the ability to support their families back home and possibly an education, health care and opportunities that they may not have had before.
Men like it they say because most have been married once before and want children. It also says that “they generally want women who do not want to work outside the home and deviate from their husbands rules.
As for Koreans, South Korean men usually marry Chinese, Vietnamese and Thai women. The Korea Times says that currently there are 6,191 Filipina women who are married to Koreans. Most of them met their wives after contacting a mail-order agency and attent “show-ups” or blind dates. The Korean man picks a woman from the group and in a matter of days marries her. They say that Filipina women won’t run away, are docile and obedient and and are familiar with the patriarchal culture. It also says though that the language and cultural differences become an issue because the women are regarded as commodities bought for a price.
It’s an interesting business that I am sure some marriages end in happiness…
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Intentionally and incrementally. Most families who live this way did not leap from conventional to adventurous overnight. They built remote work capacity, paid down debt, tested longer trips, and had increasingly honest conversations about what they actually want from their lives. The leap feels bigger from outside than from inside.
Different for every family. For some it is long-term travel. For others it is weekend adventures close to home. What connects them is intentionality about how time is spent and a preference for experiences over accumulation. The version that fits your family is the right one.
By finding stability within the adventure rather than treating them as opposites. Routines, rituals, and family rhythms travel with you. Familiar foods, bedtime routines, and predictable family dynamics provide stability even when the location changes. Kids need consistency in relationships more than consistency in geography.
That people are fundamentally similar across cultures in what they want for their families. That comfort zone is a smaller circle than it feels from inside. That the things worth having in life require effort and discomfort to get. And that time together doing hard interesting things is the most reliable source of family closeness.
By getting clear on why you made the choices you made and returning to that clarity when the outside noise gets loud. Most families living unconventionally describe an initial period of explaining themselves that gradually gives way to just living the life. The explaining becomes less necessary as the results become visible.
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