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[ultra]

http://www.thanhniennews.com/overseas/?catid=12&newsid=32266

The Korean government is planning to issue new laws and establish support centers to better protect foreign brides following the recent deaths of Vietnamese women caused by their Korean spouses.

[ultra]

http://www.thanhniennews.com/overseas/?catid=12&newsid=30301

A Vietnamese woman is suing her South Korean ex-husband for marrying her merely to have children and divorcing her after she bore two to go back to another woman whom he could not impregnate for years.
T.H [name withheld], 24, has sued the 47-year-old man in a Seoul court to gain custody of her elder daughter. She said it was difficult for her to seek custody of both children since her financial situation was difficult.

The court called both parties for a meeting last Thursday but it did not materialize since, according to T.H�s lawyer So Ra Mi, it had become unnecessary after the husband recently confessed to the deceit.

However, despite the confession, getting custody of the child was not easy since the husband was in a better financial position to raise her, she added.

T.H could have visiting rights and compensation though South Korean law stipulated no penalties for the husband�s act.

[ultra]

http://www.thanhniennews.com/society/?catid=3&newsid=30062

Another South Korean mail-order bride racket busted in Vietnam
Police in southern Vietnam caught red-handed Saturday two South Korean men and a woman selecting from a lineup of 67 mail-order brides for them and her clients.
The Ho Chi Minh City police were tipped off that a woman named B. had hired two buses in the city to leave for Long An province�s Duc Hoa district that night.

They secretly followed the vehicles and, with help from their Long An colleagues, nabbed the ring and fined three women for arranging illegal marriages.

Brokering marriages for money is illegal in Vietnam. Last May police raided a house in HCMC and found 18 young women waiting to be looked over by prospective South Korean bridegrooms.

Sources said the suitors even checked the girls for scars and birthmarks.

Last year a local newspaper reported on an occasion that dozens of Vietnamese girls were lined up in the Republic of Korea for selection by prospective husbands.

[ultra]

http://www.thanhniennews.com/overseas/?catid=12&newsid=29922

Thirteen Vietnamese tourists were reported missing after arriving at the Republic of Korea�s Jeju island, said a Korean immigration agency who suspected the Vietnamese of illegal immigration.
The tourists disappeared from their hotel on Tuesday and local authorities have no information on their whereabouts, the agency said Wednesday.

Identities of the 13 persons have yet been released by relevant agencies.

South Korea has become a favorite destination for illegal Southeast Asian immigrants.

Four similar cases, in which a total of 18 travelers have gone missing, have already occurred in Jeju this year

[Atavistic]

[goniff]

why all the "angst" dear hearts?

[Kepler]

Here's another Vietnamese bride horror story:

[Tiger Beer]

Interesting story Kepler.

I heard of a Filipina woman who married a Korean man. They arrived in Korea, and he left her in Busan to take care of his parents. Then he went up to Seoul (where he lived), and told her he'd see her on Chuseok Holiday.

It didn't last. But I think Filipinas have pretty massive communities and take care of each other quite well, whereas I'm not too sure about Vietnamese.

[bassexpander]

You know darned well that these women who marry 50-something or 60-something year-old Korean guys aren't going to see a single won after the guy dies. The money will be whisked away by the family all legal-like. She'll go away poor, used up, and older.

[Kepler]

Cambodia is another country that South Korean men have been going to to find brides. Cambodia has temporarily banned Cambodian women from marrying all foreigners. This is in response to several cases of abuse involving South Korean men and their Cambodian brides and South Korean marriage agencies which make big profits from hastily arranging such marriages.

[nicholas_chiasson]

An autopsy revealed she had died from the fall
-FROM THE 14TH STORY
I could have told them that without an autopsy, maybe they wanted to know if she was pushed...

[captain kirk]

Dave's poster 'Ultra' = Dave's poster 'Real Reality'?

[asylum seeker]

Confucianism has a lot to answer for. All of this is happening because so many female fetuses were aborted to satisfy the son preference. Otherwise there would be enough available Korean women for these men to marry. In the last few years there have been less of these sex-selective abortions but its still going to be many years before this problem rights itself. This is the one aspect of life in Korea that really gets me down. In my hakwon for instance the ratio of male to female students is about 65-35%. I do realise that this could be due to other factors as well but I'd be surprised if the wider gender imbalance in society wasn't the main reason.
China, India and other Asian countries are in the process of creating their own gender imbalances and soon, as their economies grow they're going to be competing with Korea for the same available women from neighboring countries.

[cj1976]

I attend a Korean class and most of the other students are Vietnamese and Philipino women. I think the average age must be below 25 and they're all married to Korean men at least 10 years older. I talked to one girl who is 23 and her husband is 38. As I walked out of the class, I saw someone's husband waiting and he must have been in his early fifties.

[Tiger Beer]