There’s an immigration law in Korea that requires foreign spouses to pass a Korean language exam before given visas to enter South Korea with the intent of protecting the foreign spouses from possible domestic abuse where the spouse was not able to communicate his or her situation due to the language barrier.

However, this has led to much protest, particularly wives of foreign spouses that have been denied entry because they can’t pass the test, which irritated their husbands and some even resorted to anger attack.

Since there’s a scarcity of marriageable women in the rural areas, it’s impacting farmers who have used matchmaking services to find and marry foreign brides. A man in his 60s set a matchmaking service office on fire because he was angry that his Vietnamese wife was denied entry to Korea. 

Some people were all for this new law while others stated that there should be a grace period to let the foreign spouse enter Korea first. There are also a group of people opposing the idea of multicultural marriage.

(Content source: DramaFever)