Choong Soon Kim is president of the Cyber University of Korea and professor emeritus of the University of Tennessee. He is the author of a number of books, including One Anthropologist, Two Worlds: Three Decades of Reflexive Fieldwork in North America and Asia (2002).

Anthropologist Kim (president, Cyber Univ. of Korea; emer., Univ. of Tennessee) explores the experiences of non-Korean women married to male citizens of the Republic of Korea and places them in the context of historical traditions that, in contrast to the current dominant narrative of a single ethnographic nation, emphasize Korea's openness to the world. Kim tellingly observes that discussions of multiculturalism in South Korea focus on multicultural families rather than on broader social issues. The case histories of the foreign brides, which are drawn from the author's participation in the e-Learning Campaign for Multicultural Families conducted by the Cyber University of Korea, introduce interesting patterns of intra-Asian migration. Rural men who have encountered difficulties in obtaining wives in an era of rapid urbanization have relied on marriage brokers to recruit Chinese, Vietnamese, and other Asian women eager to make economically advantageous marriages. Foreign brides now number well over 100,000. Summing Up: Recommended.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter 1. Koreans as Descendants of ImmigrantsChapter 2. The Epic Journey of an Archaeologist in Search of His AncestressChapter 3. The Emergence of the "Pure-blood" Myth and Human RightsChapter 4. Tales of Foreign Brides Who Married via International Marriage BrokersChapter 5. Stories of Foreign Brides Who Were Married by a Religious OrganizationChapter 6. Foreign Brides Who Fell in Love with Korean MenChapter 7. The Characteristics of Korean Multiculturalism and Its Outlook for the FutureNotesBibliographyIndex

Choong Soon Kim is president of the Cyber University of Korea and professor emeritus of the University of Tennessee. He is the author of a number of books, including One Anthropologist, Two Worlds: Three Decades of Reflexive Fieldwork in North America and Asia (2002).

Anthropologist Kim (president, Cyber Univ. of Korea; emer., Univ. of Tennessee) explores the experiences of non-Korean women married to male citizens of the Republic of Korea and places them in the context of historical traditions that, in contrast to the current dominant narrative of a single ethnographic nation, emphasize Korea's openness to the world. Kim tellingly observes that discussions of multiculturalism in South Korea focus on multicultural families rather than on broader social issues. The case histories of the foreign brides, which are drawn from the author's participation in the e-Learning Campaign for Multicultural Families conducted by the Cyber University of Korea, introduce interesting patterns of intra-Asian migration. Rural men who have encountered difficulties in obtaining wives in an era of rapid urbanization have relied on marriage brokers to recruit Chinese, Vietnamese, and other Asian women eager to make economically advantageous marriages. Foreign brides now number well over 100,000. Summing Up: Recommended.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter 1. Koreans as Descendants of ImmigrantsChapter 2. The Epic Journey of an Archaeologist in Search of His AncestressChapter 3. The Emergence of the "Pure-blood" Myth and Human RightsChapter 4. Tales of Foreign Brides Who Married via International Marriage BrokersChapter 5. Stories of Foreign Brides Who Were Married by a Religious OrganizationChapter 6. Foreign Brides Who Fell in Love with Korean MenChapter 7. The Characteristics of Korean Multiculturalism and Its Outlook for the FutureNotesBibliographyIndex