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Rural Girls Reconsider Marrying Koreans

Rural Girls Reconsider Marrying Koreans

“I don’t dare marry a man whom I know nothing about and totally depend on him, no matter how rich he is,” said Vo Thi Mong Tien, a girl from the same commune as Huynh Mai.

Tien, 20, who is living in Ngoc Chuc commune, Giong Rieng district, in southern Kien Giang province, thought much about the case of Huynh Mai.

“We have gathered in recent days to talk about Huynh Mai’s story. We feel sorry for her and worry about ourselves. I and my friends think that we will never exchange ourselves like her,” Tien said.

Huynh Mai’s story has made great impacts on the thinking of many people in Ngoc Chuc commune, especially young girls.

An 18-year-old girl who has a similar family situation as Huynh Mai and was recommended by match-makers to marry a foreign man of nearly 40 years old said: “I didn’t agree to marry him. I have decided to get married to a Vietnamese man despite any difficulty. Many women are still living well in Vietnam; so will I.”

Vo Van Banh, a leader of a local youth organisation in Ngoc Chuc commune, said that the commune had around 2,000 people at the age of marriage. Around 10% of girls are fulfilling formalities to marry foreign men but since the case of Huynh Mai, over half of them have cancelled. The remaining are trying to learn more about their future husbands.

The local youth organisation has established a programme to help girls who want to marry foreign men.

“Huynh Mai is a special case but we should not, based on this case, criticise girls who marry foreigners because this is their right. I think it is more important to help them learn carefully about their future husbands as well as the customs and habits, culture and laws of the places where they will live,” Mr. Banh said.

The ashes of Huynh Mai, who was killed by her Korean husband in late June, were brought to her hometown on August 31.

Mai’s mother, Tran Thi Giang, said that Mai married the Korean husband through the introduction of a match-maker, who lives around 3-4km from her house. This woman’s two nieces also got married to Korean men and they are quite happy.

“I hoped that my daughter’s life could be changed like the nieces of the match-maker,” she said.

According to the mother, till the day her daughter flew to Korea, she and her husband hadn’t seen the face of Mai’s husband.

The family has used part of the VND200 million of money presented by various organisations and individuals to build a tomb for Huynh Mai and the remaining to repair their house.

“We followed Mai’s aspiration from when she was alive: she only wished that her parents had a better house,” the mother said. VNE

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