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Article: Many migrant women in Korea scarred in broken marriages.
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- YON - Yonhap News Agency of Korea
- Article date:
- December 24, 2006
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NAMYANGJU, South Korea, Dec. 24 (Yonhap) -- As she sweeps her broom across the dirt-settled floor of a furniture factory in Namyangju, a desolate city just outside Seoul, Ella Quinones suddenly halts and drops her head as if she were about to pray -- or cry.She knows this wasn't meant to be this way.Standing in the run-down factory where everyone is off to their families, the 30-year-old Philippine woman wishes she had her son waiting at home, too, even though she knows he won't be there.Quinones moved to South Korea's remote farming area of Gochang, 280 kilometers south of Seoul, six years ago, after she decided to marry a South Korean man. She thought it ...