Recently, Odditycentral published an article about the hobby of wearing gold of Mr. Do Ngoc Thuan, 34, from HCM City. Photo: Odditycentral
According to Odditycentral, Mr. Thuan has been a gold enthusiast for a long time. The total weight of gold that Mr. Thuan usually wears is up to 5kg. Photo: Odditycentral

Mr. Thuan wears 10 rings, 30 bracelets and more than 10 gold chains around his neck whenever he works at his restaurant in HCM City or goes out. Photo: Odditycentral
Thuan says that he has almost been robbed twice. Photo: Eearlybulletins
A man from the southern province of An Giang - Mr. Pham Van Loi - also appeared on several foreign news sites for his hobby of wearing dozens of taels of gold whenever he goes out.
Mr. Pham Van Loi is 39 years old and lives in Chau Phu district, An Giang province. He claimed that all of his jewelry was genuine gold. Each piece is weighted and carved in a unique design.
Mr. Loi began wearing hefty gold jewelry three years ago.
Previously, he solely wore ivory-crafted items. However, after a while, he realized that these objects were not bringing him luck.
The gold jewelry he wears on his body is large and heavy.
He began to wear jewelry composed of valuable stones. To obtain the stones he desired, he sought and collected in stores and even went to the auction forums.

After three years, the number of pieces of jewelry he wears has totaled over 50 taels of 18K gold. Mr. Loi's love of gold may be seen in the items he regularly wears.

He gilded the whole frame of his fancy automobile and vintage motorcycle as soon as he could. He always wears a huge jewelry set and drives a gleaming gold-plated luxury automobile as he goes out.

A few years ago, a man named Tran Ngoc Phuc appeared on Chinese news sites for the same hobby. Photo: China Press
It was reported that Phuc XO usually wore over 13kg of gold. Photo: China Press
However, he was later arrested for being involved in a drug-use case. He then admitted that all the gold he had been wearing was fake. Photo: Lao Dong

Hanh Nguyen