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Vietnamese Wife Battered To Death In S Korea, Husband Arrested

A South Korean man was arrested last week for murdering his Vietnamese wife last month after she asked to return to her country, KBS television has reported, sparking an outcry in the country.

Twenty-year-old Huynh Mai, from the Mekong Delta's Kien Giang province, had married Jangamuke, 46, in Cheonan city and was permitted to live in South Korea since May this year.

But he began to ill-treat her and after two months she asked him to let her return home. Not only did Jangamuke not allow that but also flew into a rage and beat her to death.

Her body was found on July 4, eight days after her death, in the basement of the house. An autopsy revealed 18 broken ribs.

After killing her, he fled to the central region and was apprehended on August 5 after he called home.

He is in police custody pending trial.

Mai was cremated last month in Cheonan.

Local newswire www.ohmynews.com also posted a farewell letter Mai wrote to her husband the day before she was killed.

It added that Mai’s case should serve as a wake-up call since recently a lot of Vietnamese brides had been ill-treated and forced to divorce their Korean husbands.

This year the South Korean government adopted programs to provide financial assistance to foreign brides who married poor local men.

It is also trying to stamp out to the clandestine marriage brokerages that find poor mail-order foreign brides, including Vietnamese, for Korean men.

There were over 10,000 Vietnamese wives in South Korea at the end of 2006, 74 percent more than a year earlier, official statistics showed.

Vietnamese police have busted several cases of “matchmaking” in which Vietnamese women are lined up for South Korean men to choose.

Source: Tuoi Tre

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