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.
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however isnt murder being looked into???
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.
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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.