With the slowdown of the epidemic and the opening of the border, many Taiwanese living overseas are using their annual leave to return to Taiwan for a reunion to find their other half.

(Photo by reporter Li Rongping)

[Reporter Li Rongping/Taoyuan Report] Wuhan pneumonia (new coronavirus disease, COVID-19) epidemic has slowed down, borders have been opened, and people entering the country are exempted from home quarantine.

The Meiman Service Center in Zhongli District, Taoyuan City, which has been serving unmarried men and women for 38 years, said on the 15th that due to the severe epidemic last year, there were less than 10 people who signed up to return to Taiwan during the Lunar New Year holiday to find a partner. There are also 43 people who made an appointment to sign up after the New Year.

Xu Naiyi, a senior social worker, said that the 42-year-old Dr. Zhang, who returned to Taiwan from Washington, is a prominent Taichung family. He went to the United States to obtain a doctorate more than 10 years ago. He worked as a high-paying petroleum engineer. Miss Qianjin was arrogant, and the two parties later divorced. This time, the petroleum engineer hoped to find a simple, gentle, and family-oriented divorced woman to remarry.

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Master of Medicine surnamed Zhang, who is an attending physician in the United States, believes that Taiwan is different from the United States after all. Although there are many family members of Chinese patients expressing goodwill and wanting to form a good relationship, after all, the relationship between doctors and patients must be handled carefully, so he returned to Taiwan to look for traditional domestic Women; a woman surnamed Guo who works as a casino manager also said that after seeing all kinds of gamblers abroad, she found that the Chinese are the most authentic, especially Taiwanese men are more reassuring!

In addition, a woman surnamed Qiu who has worked in France for many years praised French men as romantic, but she thought that such passionate men had doubts about their "loyalty" to marriage; a girl from Kaohsiung who had worked in Japan for three years thought that Japanese men were inconsiderate. Masculinity, or Taiwanese boys are honest and caring, so I hope to find a suitable partner when I return to Taiwan.

Xu Naiyi said that among the men and women who made an appointment years ago, there was a man who graduated from high school and worked as a chef in Chinatown. It is the second spring, and the others are unmarried.

Xu mentioned that marriage has a process of fragrance, sourness, sweetness, bitterness and spicyness. Marrying overseas may not have to worry about mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, but becoming a "new resident" also faces language, customs, and even work problems. Idol dramas are so romantic!

In fact, according to the statistics of the Center, over the years, the success rate of overseas marriages is much lower than that of "geographical convenience" where both men and women live in China. This is also a blind spot that the parties should find ways to overcome.