The purpose of this article is to examine the difficulties with which immigrant brides in the Korean rural farming sector are confronted and to suggest policy responses that address these difficulties, from the viewpoint of social exclusion. To that end, this article divides "social exclusion" into five categories: culture, education, linguistic communication, economy, and community life. With regard to research methodology, this article primarily depends on various kinds of formal or informal documents and data, and conducts unstructured, in-depth interviews with immigrant brides who live in the rural farming area of Gyeongbuk Do, in order to complement and support the documented research. © 2008 by The Institute of Korean Studies.

Immigrant brides Social cxclusion Korea Vietnamese brides Policy response

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