Vietnamese wife commits suicide in South Korea
A Vietnamese wife committed suicide in South Korean on Feb. 6, because she could not adapt herself to a new life there, local www.idaegu.co.kr e-newspaper reported Tuesday.
C., 22, threw herself to her death off the 14th floor of an apartment building in Kyongsan City, 400 kilometers to the south of the capital, Seoul.
According to local police, she had kept asking to come back to Vietnam, as she did not speak Korean and so could not settle into her new life.
H., her husband, told the police that he had already bought an air ticket for her because she had requested to come home many times.
Nguyen Hung Son, the official for liaison with the Vietnamese community at the Seoul-based embassy, said the wife was from the Mekong Delta’s Hau Giang Province.
She married last September and then flew to South Korea mid-January.The embassy Tuesday received a letter from the girl’s mother asking them to clarify her daughter’s death, Son added.
They are now cooperating with local police to investigate the case.
Two young Vietnamese brides in South Korea, Huynh Mai and Kim Dong, died as a result of mistreatment by their husbands last year.
This infuriated the public and lead the two governments to make plans for protecting and supporting Vietnamese wives in South Korean who are often subject to domestic violence.
They are also alienated due to poor command of the country’s language and little understanding of its culture and laws.
Latest South Korean statistics show that up to 9,812 Vietnamese women have married South Korean men, accounting for the highest percentage of foreign brides in the country. Illegal marriage bureaus performed the majority of the Vietnamese-Korean marriages.
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