Police in Jeollanam-do province south west of the Republic of Korea on July 29 found the dead body of a young Vietnamese woman in a local valley.

Initial investigations show the victim, Do Thi My Tien, born in 1987 in Tay Ninh province, married a Korean man in 2004. She obtained the Korean nationality and had an 8-year-old boy.

A post-mortem examination revealed that Tien had been murdered five days earlier, and the murder pushed her over down the valley together with her bike to make a fake accident scene.

Local police summoned Tien’s husband for questioning.

Several Vietnamese women who married Koran men said Tien and her husband had had a quarrel before she was murdered.

Tien’s mother flew to the RoK to hold a funeral for her unfortunate daughter.

Many Vietnamese brides have been killed by their Korean husbands. In a recent case, Ngo Thi Nga, 21, was killed by her husband Own Chon, 34, in Kangwon province in January 2014. The murder killed himself shortly after that.

According to the RoK Ministry of Security and Public Administration, by 2013 Vietnam had nearly 52,000 women married to Korean men, ranking it second after China.

Over the past years the RoK government has given priority to helping foreign brides integrate into their husbands’ families and local culture.  Hotlines have been set up to receive phone calls from foreign brides who want to further explore Korean customs.

Vietnamese brides are encouraged to contact the Vietnamese embassy in Seoul to receive immediate support if they are maltreated by their husbands.

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