I found this article on Time Magazine called Buy Freedom by
Hannah Beech on November 17, 2003. Here’s the link if you want to read it http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,543843,00.html. This article really didn’t answer my question
but had lot info on how some wives had to go through hardship to be where they
are. Reading about these two ladies was very heart breaking to be in another
country to have some sort of freedom and live better lives. One of them had it more badly than the other. Just
reading about this made me feel sad just to know that they went through that to
make sure that they lived a better life. To be sent to a refugee-detention for
months and just given boiled corn kernels or two rice cakes and salt water nothing
else plus to work and be beaten. One had it harder than the other but at the
end was sold for $36 by a North Korean middleman to a Chinese smuggler and then
was sold for $600 to a Chinese famer that took care of her and loved her. As
for the other she had to be beaten and sold to man that didn’t love her and
beat her but she will not leave him since she was threaten they will call north
Korea. These two ladies look for nothing more that we
all do a safe and living family. From how they both got it made me think that I’m
fortune to have what I have. My question to you is would you go through what
they both did to have freedom?
How much does a mail order bride cost?
ReplyDeleteReading that they went through so much just to “survive” I wonder if they ever had the chance to run away but were too scared to do so thinking that they wouldn’t make it that far. Did they have a plan to get away later on that’s why they suffered so much? I am glad one lady was sold to someone that will love her unfortunately the other was not in a safe environment. I honestly think I wouldn’t be able to survive doing what they did to be free. If I knew or had that gut feeling and had the courage to somehow get away I would do what I think I needed to do to get away. Then again I am unsure if they were locked up so securely that there isn’t a way to get out. If that were the case I would have probably taken my life in some way to stop the suffering and unhappy life. But that would be my choice if I didn’t at least try to get away