By It seems strange to me that the woman would commit suicide after only being in South Korea for one month:
A Vietnamese bride was reported dead after jumping from the 14th storey of an apartment building in Kyongsangbucdo province, in the Southern part of South Korea on February 2. According to the Vietnamese Embassy in South Korea, the woman, Tran Thanh Lan, from the Southern Province of Hau Giang was 22 years-old.
According to her husband, Ha Jang Su, 35, they were married in September 2007 and went to South Korea on January 12, 2008. After leaving, Lan didn’t feel comfortable with her new life and repeatedly asked to return to Vietnam. Her husband bought her a ticket but she committed suicide before leaving. [VietnamNet]
I’m sure we can count on the Korean police to get to the bottom of this.
1:58 am on February 16th, 2008 1
I'd jump too if I were married to a Korean…er…wait a second….
3:33 am on February 16th, 2008 2
lol mark!
however isnt murder being looked into???
3:33 am on February 16th, 2008 3
What! No, I will not jump again.
7:17 am on February 16th, 2008 4
I am sure she thought about it and came to the conclusion that death was better then being married to a Korean man.
8:26 am on February 16th, 2008 5
Didn't Van Halen write a song about what she wanted?
Uh-huh.
I was thinking of "Best of Both Worlds". You were thinking of "Jump". You are just soooooo wrong.
Actually it is quite amazing there isn't more suicide (or murder). Most of the Korean/Vietnamese marriages make the GI/Juicy relationships looks like a Disney fairytale in comparison.
While the Seoul immigration office has a lot of Russian girls and Filipinas trying hard to not look like "entertainers", the smaller offices are filled with pathetic old Koran farmers and foreign peasant girls with a look of tired bewilderment and an aura of sad resignation. Very sad, really.
Word on the Street says there is a high degree of undesirability, some level of mental illness and a bit of violence among many of the Korean men who are forced to go against 5000 years of tradition and find a wife outside the country.
In the end, Prince Charming doesn't have to marry a bargirl or a third-world peasant… so many of these girls are setting themselves up for failure before they even arrive. The problem isn't a Korean husband so much as it is the WRONG Korean husband.
As for being married to a Korean, there is little problem with Korean Thinking… usually, Woman Thinking is the real handicap.
7:24 pm on February 16th, 2008 6
Korean man or death. Korean man or death…. she chose death. What a shame.
11:12 pm on February 16th, 2008 7
Will N.Y.Times Norimitsu Onishi ever report this story?
12:21 pm on February 19th, 2008 8
[...] to manage international marriage brokers due to take effect in June 2008 will be too late for Tran Thanh Lan and four South Koreans indicted for human trafficking in The Philippines. But,the two incidents [...]
4:23 am on February 27th, 2008 9
i don't agree with what no. 6 wrote. u have no idea about the truth whether she really killed herself or not and u have no idea what was going on in her life after getting married to that man!
4:28 pm on February 27th, 2008 10
Her husband bought her ticket to return to Vietnam but she decided to suicide.
Living with her korean husband may have been a hell, but returning to her land may have been worst. Why? I think this is the place were we must dig.
7:07 pm on February 20th, 2010 11
She may have thought that she would suffer "loss of Face"
ie to be seen as a failure if she returned to Vietnam.