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Happy ever after: Celebs lead trend of marriage to foreigners

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Actress Lim Sung-min and her husband Michael Unger. Yonhap
Actress Lim Sung-min and her husband Michael Unger. Yonhap

By Dong Sun-hwa

International marriages have become common.

Last year, 20,835 couples were hitched in international marriages, accounting for 7.9 percent of all weddings.

And celebrities are leading that trend.

TV personality and actress Lim Sung-min married American Michael Unger in 2011. They met at the Busan International Film Festival through a mutual friend.

"My husband fell in love with me at first sight," Lim was quoted as saying. "Then I got dressed to kill for the red carpet."

Unger moved to Korea to be with Lim and is teaching at Sogang University.

Actress Shin Joo-ah and her husband Sarawut Rachanakul. From Shin Joo-ah's Instagram
Actress Shin Joo-ah and her husband Sarawut Rachanakul. From Shin Joo-ah's Instagram

In 2014, Korean actress Shin Joo-ah, 34, tied the knot with Chinese-Thai millionaire Sarawut Rachanakul, whose family runs Thailand's JBP International Paint.

Shin met Rachanakul while she was traveling in Thailand.

"When we first met, we did not know much about each other," Rachanakul told her wife at a Korean reality show. "It was not easy to understand each other when we met; you tried so hard to understand me, which impressed me."

Among others, actress Chae-rim and singer BMK are also married to foreigners.




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