By Without a doubt the Korean matchmaking company should be held partly liable for this murder because I doubt this woman would have married this guy if she knew his background:
The 20-year-old Vietnamese bride had been in South Korea for only eight days when she was stabbed to death at her house July 3 in Busan.
Police investigators identified the suspect as her husband, Jang, 47, whom they would identify only by his last name. Police described Jang as a psychiatric patient with 57 cases of schizophrenia treatment in the past five years.
Before bringing his bride home from Vietnam, Jang was hospitalized for five days, police said. They also said he had been charged with assaulting his parents in 2005.
“I committed the murder after hearing a voice from a ghost,” he told police during the investigation. “He told me to kill my wife.”
The bride was from a farming family in Vietnam that has been receiving government aid and housing. The couple met through a Korean matchmaking company and got married in Vietnam in January, police said. The woman followed Jang to South Korea this month with the hopes of living the Korean Dream. [ABC News]
Read the rest at the link.
10:24 am on July 20th, 2010 1
Is this the 20 year old Vietnamese woman who was killed in Busan at the beginning of July…Or is it another one!? (God forbid!)
Immigration has come out quite strongly as a result (meaning E2 visa holders are not the only ones subject to Immigrations knee jerk reactions) and Korean men intending to marry foreign brides must now attend information sessions – immigration is calling them "cultural education" – before leaving for China or SE Asia.
It intends to restrict invitation / sponsorship / entry for spouses of Korean men who do not undergo the "education"
The Government itself says Marriage should be a personal matter but its efforts in offering education to foreign spouses only after they have entered Korea has failed to stop undesirable and socially inappropriate marriages, and it wants to promote a decent marriage culture.
see more here: http://www.immigration.go.kr/HP/COM/bbs_01/Downlo…
12:43 pm on July 20th, 2010 2
Criminal and psychiatric background checks should be legally mandatory for anyone seeking to sponsor a spousal or adoptive visa.
3:04 pm on July 20th, 2010 3
And don't forget tests for alcoholism (and other harmful/costly/deadly substance addictions)
6:17 pm on July 20th, 2010 4
@#1:
Do you mean the married Vietnamese woman who was raped by her South Korean husband? I think it's a another different tragedy…unfortunately
9:12 pm on July 20th, 2010 5
I should have read the quote carefully – this IS the case from the beginning of July I was talking about – @Left Flank that's ANOTHER case!
9:34 pm on July 20th, 2010 6
http://www.businessghana.com/portal/news/index.ph…
This should have been done a long ago.
9:59 pm on July 20th, 2010 7
I have a far better ideal. Just ban Korean men from marrying immigrant wives from Asia who is looking for a ticket out. The benefits will be two way street. Vietnamese women won't get hurt marrying wacko stranger men who are 20, 30 years older, and Korea doesn't get flooded with people from the third world who wants to marry only because of money.
10:04 pm on July 20th, 2010 8
So that Vietnamese men can marry their own women, and Korean tax payers don't have to carry the burden of welfare supporting these 'multicultural' families and no problems of immigrant women getting murdered. A win win situation for both parties.
10:17 pm on July 20th, 2010 9
What about Korea's dropping birthrate? I'm particularly concerned about how it's going to affect Korea's next-gen pool of both labor force and healthy conscripts. It's going to hurt Korea both economically and militarily in the long run.
I for one welcome the new Asian marriage delegates for Korea. Korea has only to gain from this marriage trend. Koreans have a duty to protect these delegates and preserve the country's economic and military interest.
10:35 pm on July 20th, 2010 10
Even you yourself will be very tempted to get a hot third world wife if you couldn't earn a Korean bride, Tom (if you are a man, yes). Whether or not you'll treat them nicely is of course another story.
12:00 am on July 21st, 2010 11
Tom…
I agree with you.
Many of the men who can't find wives in Korea don't need to be reproducing… especially by creating a new underclass of mixed-race/nationality children which will be stereotyped as poor and uneducated… primarily because it will be, like many stereotypes, pretty much right on the money.
Unfortunately, rather than speaking, actions and manners, being judged by society, which currently allows a good deal of social mobility in Korea, racial/national background will be the discriminatory factor… and it will be much harder to overcome that…
…more-so when your father is a poor, uneducated farmer and your mother is an illiterate, third-world peasant… and, even more-so when your old father dies and leaves a relatively young mother with no skills except holding her hand out for a government check.
Whatever the problems are in Korea, encouragement of the lowest level of foreign brides is not the answer.
Multiculturalism is all well and good if, like everything else in the world/life, one is selective about which cultures, and which parts of those cultures, one adopts.
Assuming every action and way of thinking is equally valid to satisfy the ideology of "tolerance" is a losing strategy.
As for Korea's dropping birthrate…
Anybody who says, "have more babies," is a bloowjob-in-the-alley-for-a-hit crackhead.
What the hell are you thinking?
Other than city-states and island nations, Korea ranks near the top in population density. More babies simply adds another layer to the pyramid of overpopulation, resource depletion and environmental destruction while delaying all the current problems to a later and larger generation left with fewer options and resources to solve them.
Korea… I beg you not to rely on short-term solutions based on short-term thinking… and I implore you to ignore the demands of the global politically correct who, too often, base their decisions in wishful ideology rather than realism.
9:02 am on July 21st, 2010 12
When you speak of the prevalence and level of negative discrimination that's being given to these children by their Korean neighbors, are you speaking out from a firsthand experience, as a firsthand source?
10:46 am on July 21st, 2010 13
Singapore has for years tried to convince Singaporean (Chinese) professional women to marry Chinese men of equal social and educational status. But, There's very little that can be done to convince a woman to marry a poor man of equal social status. Perhaps a German or Danish model labor system where the government emphasizes training for that next job and not on subsidizing unemployment, to get poor men off the farms and into the labor market?
8:26 pm on July 25th, 2010 14
http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/national/2010/07/…
Let us wait and observe with rapt attention and bated breath to which new age the largely competent President Lee's preemptive 'politically correct' maneuver will eventually lead Korea's new generation to.
8:28 pm on July 25th, 2010 15
Oh woe the grammar! Where's the preview feature when we need it…