 In 1989, the most recent year for which data are available, the number of Russian mother tongue speakers among the Koryo-saram population overtook that of Korean mother tongue speakers.The 2005 South Korean film "Wedding Campaign", directed by Hwang Byung-kook, portrays two aging bachelor farmers from rural villages who hope to find wives.Having no romantic prospects in South Korea, they opt to go through an international mail-order bride agency, which sends them to Uzbekistan and tries to match them with Korean women there.