A South Korean man
killed his Vietnamese wife on May 24, in Jeongto District of North Kyeongsang
Province. The Vietnamese women just had a baby for 19 days.

The murder occurred
at 1.10 am (local time). The husband, named Lim Chae Won, 37, was immediately
arrested.

Lim admitted to
police that he stabbed Hoang when she was attempting to leave the house with
their 19-month-old son. He said Hoang had asked for a divorce many times after
moving to South Korea
with him in August 2010.

The Vietnamese
Embassy in South Korea has identified
the Vietnamese woman as Hoang Thi Nam,
23, from Thang Hai Commune, in Binh Thuan Province’s
Phan Thiet City.

An autopsy result
showed that Nam
was stabbed 53 times and died on the spot.

Nam
had married Lim Chae Won, 37, in April and moved to South Korea in August 2010.

A neighbor called
the police after hearing Lim kick a neighbor’s door and shout that he had
killed a person. When officers arrived at Lim’s house, they found the couple’s
19-day-old baby lying next to his bleeding mother and his father outside the
house with a knife in hand.

Nam reportedly lived in Simthow, a center for
ill-treated foreign brides, from October 5 to November 22 last year before Lim
came and took her home.

Two South Korean
senior officials visited the Vietnamese embassy on May 24 afternoon to express
their sympathy. The said local officials would keep their Vietnamese
counterparts fully informed about any developments in the case.

The police were
investigating further.

In July 2010, a
mentally challenged man killed another Vietnamese mail order bride, Thach Thi
Hoang Ngoc, one week after her arrival to Korea. Notably, Ngoc could not
speak Korean and he did not know that her husband was a mental patient. Five
days before coming to Vietnam
to met Ngoc, the Korean husband was hospitalized.

This man was
sentenced 12 years in jail by the Pusan
City court in October
2010. He will be treated in prison and will have to wear a control electronic
bracelet for the next ten years.

South Korean
President, Lee Myung-bak in a speech on the radio apologized and offered his
condolences to the family of Thach Thi Hong Ngoc.

In South Korea,
out of ten rural men, four get married with foreign women. The South Korean
government has recently tightened control over match-making companies and opened
pre-marriage education centers for those who plan to marry foreign people.

Thu Hang