Vietnamese authorities are completing procedures to repatriate the cremated ashes of a woman who was killed by her father-in-law in South Korea in early June.

A corner of the Seongbuk-gu District in Seoul where the Vietnamese woman was killed by her father-in-law on June 2. Photo by Korean Times.

Speaking with the media on June 29, foreign ministry spokesperson Le Thi Thu Hang said that the Vietnamese woman, Bui Cat Ha, was killed by her father-in-law at their apartment in Seongbuk-gu District in Seoul on June 2.

“The Vietnamese Embassy in South Korea have worked with local authorities in identifying victim," Hang said, adding the father had been arrested by local police. "We're working with them in investigating the murder and bringing the woman's remains home."

According to the Korean Times, police have charged a man in his 80s with murdering his Vietnamese daughter-in-law for not giving him money and not treating him with sufficient respect.

On June 2, the man, identified by his surname Kim, 83, stabbed the woman in the neck and back while she was sleeping at their apartment at around 4 am, the newspaper cited the Seoul Northern District Prosecutors' Office.

The victim's husband, 48, found her body the same day. Police arrested the father-in-law at the scene, the newspaper reported.

Kim reportedly told police his daughter-in-law, who migrated to Korea 10 years ago, and his son treated him badly.

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