The following is from the international column of the Asahi Shimbun 8 page on December 28th.
South Korea
The DV secondary to Vietnamese women
The case that the Vietnamese woman who married and migrated to Korea is killed is successive and becomes a problem in Vietnam.
There was much, too, trouble of the domestic violence (DV) by the husband of the Korean and so on and the Vietnamese government required for the immediate measure in the Korean side.
According to the Vietnam state media, this month the 17th in North Gyeongsang Province of South Korea southeast, Vietnamese woman's ( 28 ) being found have died been strangled at home, and the husband ( 42 ) of the Korean was arrested in the suspicion of the murder.
It says that the word wasn't well-informed sufficiently and that conjugality was aggravated.
In November 30th, there was a case that a Vietnamese woman (22) is killed by the man of the Korean at the hotel.
According to the family of the woman, it married another Korean man 2 years before but it says that it parted to the reason that it isn't possible to have a child, and that it was left in Korea, so that it was searching for the work.
Pham toe Han Deputy Foreign spokesman on the 18th, he said, “that it demanded the necessity of strict handling and the recurrence preventive measure to the case from the Korean government”
The Vietnamese woman who marries in Korea increases rapidly from about 10 years before, there are about 65000 and they are made many following China and Taiwan.
In Korea, because it is difficult to find a marriage partner especially in rural areas, the intermediary agent holds a group meeting with a view to marriage in the farm village in the Vietnamese southern part and so on.
However, there are many, too, cases which break up in the difference of the word and the habitude and DV and so on are serious case too, occurs in the part.
When examining a report since then in 07, Vietnamese wife and ex-wife is incident 8 killed in Korea, suicide is 4 that DV, etc. to bitter, incidents that fell dead from the veranda while trying to escape from her husband there was 1.
The Korean residence Vietnamese Chang Hai Lin, Chairman of the meeting pointed out that "come in married with longing in fashion and fine home and car in the popular drama and music of the impact of South Korea, but the reality is different."
The said meeting establishes an inquiry counter, to learn language and culture as a countermeasure.
(Hanoi = Manabu Sasaki)