Korean Brides—Meet Korean Mail Order Brides

Finding a Korean bride is easy. In fact, you’ve already done all the hard work if you’re here—now, all you need to do is choose a website, sign up, and start chatting with thousands of ladies.

And of course, read our guide first. Here, we’re going to tell you a lot of useful facts about these ladies. How to date them? Are they really so perfect? Are the stereotypes true? Read and find out!

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Top 5 facts to know before you meet a Korean bride 

When someone says that “girls from Japan/Korea/Ukraine/Colombia make perfect wives”, it’s not true at all. They can make great partners for some, but not for everyone because Korean ladies are not perfect—just like women from any other country.

• They are generally more conservative than American women, which is no surprise considering that they live in a collectivist society shaped by Confucianism. Hierarchy, obedience to authority, all those things might surprise you if you expected Korean society to be totally Westernized. This, obviously, also affects their family values and relationship roles.
• They are polite and not that conflicting (in general meaning), but they don’t hide their feelings as much as, say, Japanese women who have their “reading air” concept that makes it very hard for foreigners to understand them. Korean women are different. If they like you, they won’t play games with you. In fact, it’s actually quite the opposite—if they like you, you should be ready for love-bombing!
• Some people say they’re materialistic. It’s not 100% true but we also can’t say that the financial situation of a partner is not important at all. You don’t need to be extremely rich but you have to be ambitious and hard-working.
• They might be too jealous sometimes. This is often related to their extremely competitive society and therefore, their low self-esteem. But it’s possible to deal with this problem.
• But on the other hand, they’re 100% loyal in a relationship.

See, for someone who hates jealousy, Korean girls would be too difficult to build a relationship with. For those who want a polite, loyal, beautiful, and family-centered lady, meeting a Korean woman would be a great idea. It’s all about the balance of pros and cons and about your preferences.

Top 3 dating tips 

1. Do not ask too many questions about the cultural differences, just accept them. Yes, they might have a curfew even if they are in their 20s, and yes, her mother might call you while she’s on a date and tell her to come home. It’s a part of their culture and if you ask too many questions about it, they might be embarrassed. 
2. Pay for a date, take her home, show your manners! Korea is a developed country, of course, but it’s still not that common for locals to split the bill here, for example. In this regard, they’re pretty old-fashioned. 
3. Do not feel offended if she suddenly cancels a date and don’t try to find hidden motives. They have a lot of obligations and they have to manage them somehow, you’ll learn it later once you become a part of the family.

Is it possible to buy a Korean bride? 

No, it’s not. You can’t buy a Korean bride, it’s not legal.

But it’s legal to meet them on mail order bride websites—these are special, niche platforms where you can find thousands of single Korean ladies who speak English and want to marry a foreign man.

Where & how to meet Korean brides? 

There are three main options to choose from—you can meet Korean brides online, you can do it offline, and you can meet them via marriage agencies. Let’s talk about these 3 options. 

Online

It’s not about Instagram or TikTok, obviously. Right now, Korea is one of the top mail bride countries so there are thousands of women from this country on mail order bride websites. These are international dating platforms with a lot of features, extra verification services (compared to dating sites focused on one country), and other advantages. Here’s more about the pros and cons of this method.

Offline

Meeting women on the street or in a club is great, especially if that street and club are in a foreign country. However, there are certain problems you need to be aware of.

Marriage agencies

They still exist! There are, in fact, mail order bride websites with limited messaging tools, focused on real-life meetings. With such an agency, you can choose the girls you like and meet them in person—marriage agencies typically help their clients with all the needed services, from airport transfers and translation services to planning the dates.

Our choice here is online dating—it’s simple, fast, convenient, and cheap. But of course, offline dating might be a good idea, too. As for the marriage agencies, well, let’s say it’s up to you to choose.

How much does it cost to get a Korean mail order bride? 

It’s not about “buying”, as you see—you can’t “buy” a bride online, that’s impossible.

But getting a wife is never free, and when it comes to someone from another country, it just can’t be free because you’ll need to pay for a trip, visa, and wedding to get her to the US.

And you’ll also need to pay for online dating.

As we’ve said, these sites are usually not free to use. Let’s take SakuraDate and see how much 1 month of online dating costs there. If you’re wondering “why SakuraDate”, it’s simple—it’s a good, legit, and reliable Korean dating service, so why not?

• So, there’s a credit system on that site and 1 credit costs $0.2 (largest package).
• 1 minute of live chat costs 2 credits or $0.4.
• 1 long email costs 20 credits or $4.
• Men typically send around 10 emails per month and spend around 450 minutes in a live chat (15 minutes per day, 24/7).
• 10 emails cost $40, 450 minutes of live chat cost $180
• The total monthly cost for most users would be around $180

Now, a trip. Korea is an expensive country to visit but this can’t be skipped—to apply for a K-1 visa for your bride, you must meet her in person at least once. 

• A flight from NYC to Seoul costs around $1,000
• You’ll pay around $700 for a hotel room (7 days)
• You’ll also pay around $800-$1,000 for food, transportation, and dates
• The total cost would be around $2,500-$2,700 for a trip to Seoul.

The visa fee is around $2,500 (K-1 visa). After getting a K-1 visa, you’ll have to marry her. 

And as you probably already know, the number of options is incredibly large. You can only pay around $100 for registration of marriage and $100 more for notarization of documents at the embassy. Or, you can pay $10,000-$45,000 for a wedding in the US or in Korea ($10,000 is the median wedding cost in the US, in Korea it’s around $45,000). And of course, there are lots of different options between these two variants.

So, the total price would be around $5,500 (wedding not included). Yes, it’s more expensive than getting a Ukrainian or a Mexican bride. But it’s possible to save even in Korea—choose the right season, find a cheaper hotel, spend less on gifts and dates, and you’ll save up to $1,000-$1,500! 

What it’s like to be married to a Korean bride 

Want to know more about these women? Want to understand what to expect from the marriage? Check this list out:

• They’re intelligent, hard-working, ambitious, and driven for success—which is also true for the success of their partners. So your career will probably be boosted.
• They’re obsessed with Korean beauty standards, and Korean beauty standards are probably the highest in the world. So on the one hand, your Korean wife will always look perfect. But on the other hand, it will take a lot of time and money.
• They’re romantic. They love compliments, for example—yes, Korean men often think that compliments are not worth it, but that’s not true. Give them compliments about their looks, clothes, and so on—and you’ll love the result! And they also celebrate Special Days, so that 100/200/300 days thing is very important for them.

Why do Korean girls want a foreign husband? 

Thousands of those girls learn English, pay photographers for a photoshoot, and do their best to meet a man from the West. Why?

• Western men are more progressive. Korean guys are typically more conservative regarding their views on gender equality and women’s rights, and they often have pretty sexist and old-fashioned views.
• Western men are more attractive. It’s not a Korean-only thing, a lot of Asian women think that Westerners are more handsome than Asian guys.
• Korean women often can’t find a man interested in marriage. The situation with marriage rates in Korea is grim and there are too many men in their 20s and 30s who don’t even think about building a family.
• Some of them want to move to the US. They often struggle with the work-life balance, sexism is still very common in Korea, and their society is extremely competitive—so a lot of local ladies dream of moving to the United States.

So, as you see, nothing is simpler than to understand a woman who just wants to find someone to rely on or share her views of life. But there are also many misconceptions around such singles, so it’s worth your time to learn more about them, too.

Korean brides: Top 4 stereotypes 

As almost every other nation, Koreans are surrounded with stereotypes. And as with almost every nation, these stereotypes are not true. 

They are hyper-focused on their career

That’s what their society wants them to be and that’s what they need to do in order to compete with other Koreans. But it’s not what they want, actually—there’s a lot of family-centered Korean ladies who would love to get married and build a family, but they don’t have time and opportunities for that.

They don’t want children

It’s very similar to the previous one—it’s not about what they want or don’t want, it’s about what they can or can’t afford. Young Koreans simply can’t afford having children—for example, it’s totally ok for a 35-year-old man in Seoul to live in a tiny hostel room with 30 other people, and they have a very serious inequality problem in their society. Now, add to that the fact that Korea is one of the most expensive countries in the world to raise children: you’ll get a logical result (the lowest fertility rate in the world).

They are childish and not serious 

It’s a real thing, but it’s mostly a TV thing, actually. Yes, sometimes, even adult Korean women might act “cute” and childlike here—it’s called “aegyo” and most Koreans find it cringe, so it’s not that common, actually (it’s more common among Japanese girls).

They are gold-diggers

No, they are not! They don’t want too many gifts, they are not looking for someone extremely wealthy, and if you try to flex with money on a date, you’ll most likely get rejected. What they want is a man with a stable job, ambitions, and career prospects.

So even though not all of these myths are 100% groundless, you can see that most of them are not true at all. These are just the most popular ones: there are many more stereotypes about Korean ladies, but you need to understand that the majority of them have nothing to do with reality. 

Do you still have questions? 

And that’s not all! If you have any questions, just scroll down to the FAQ—most of them are already answered. And don’t forget to read our guides about how the industry of brides works and about how much mail order brides do really cost: they will certainly be useful.

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