Background characteristics of study participants are presented in Table 1. Approximately 37.3% of the participants came from Vietnam, 25.6% from China, 19.0% from the Philippines, and 18.0% from other Asian countries included in this study. Immigrant women in their 20s made up 57.3% of the sample. A large proportion of participants had a high school (39.1%) or higher education (27.2%). The majority of immigrant women (93.3%) lived above the poverty line and in rural areas (56.3%). Of the 316 participants,
42.4% had lived in Korea for more than 1 to less than 3 years, 28.5& for longer than 5 years, and 8.2% for less than 1 year.