As posted in the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) website, the Philippine Embassy in Korea issued out a warning against agencies that serves as a medium for Filipinas who wants to go to Korea as mail order brides.  

Luis T. Cruz, Philippine Ambassador to South Korea, restates this warning as the government of the said country tightens its rules against interracial matchmaking agencies that refuse to comply with local laws and use deceiving advertising. 

Likewise, the Philippine Embassy also has Philippine Republic Act 6955 or the Anti-Mail-Order Bride Law, which makes it illegal for a "person, natural or juridical, association, club or any other entity" to "establish or carry on a business which has for its purpose the matching of Filipino women for marriage to foreign nationals either on a mail-order basis or through personal introduction."

This policy also prohibits anyone "to advertise, publish, print or distribute or cause the advertisement, publication, printing or distribution of any brochure, flier, or any propaganda material calculated to promote the prohibited acts" earlier mentioned. Further amendments include its applicability to mail-order bride schemes using "mails or websites in the Internet."

Even if South Korea allows the existence of matchmaking agencies, specific rules must be met in order to make the agency legal. South Korean policies laws obliged registration of the said agencies and to be conscious of issues concerning interracial marriages and ethics.

Ambassador Cruz said that the promise of high paying jobs and better life entice many Filipinos to marry foreigners  just so they can enter South Korea.

An estimate of 5,000 Filipinos living in South Korea are married to South Koreans, may of them met their spouse through matchmaking agencies as of January 31, 2008 data.