First Viet Nam - Korea Care Center built in Can Tho
The VKCC was built at Street No. 5, Phu An Residential Area (Lot 20), Thanh Thuan Area, Phu Thu Ward, Cai Rang District, Can Tho City with an area of 2,793m2. The two-story building includes: The legal advice office, Vietnamese - Korean multicultural family library, kitchen, canteen, classrooms, classroom for handicraft, yoga room, sport court...
The center provides supports to the returnee brides with vocational training, job creation, and loans for starting business so that they can be self-reliant in life. Lawyers of the legal advice office will assist in solving problems related to divorce, naturalization and birth certification.
At the inauguration ceremony, Ms. Diep Thi Thu Hong – President of Can Tho Women's Union, thanked Hyundai Motor Corporation and KOCUN Can Tho Association for their companion in helping migrant married women, repatriated women and Vietnamese-Korean children to have a better marriage life or to overcome difficulties in their life after repatriation; at the same time, to build a first humanistic Vietnamese-Korean cultural community in Can Tho.
A workshop was held right after the inauguration to discuss the situation as well as legal, economic and social support needed for the resettlement in Vietnam of the repatriated women and Vietnamese - Korean children.
VWU’s Vice President Bui Thi Hoa said at the workshop that VWU does not only care for women living in Viet Nam, but also for those are living abroad, including migrant women. The responsibilities of the VWU are clearly defined in the Law on Marriage and Family. Currently, it has 18 counseling centers providing pre-marriage counseling, basic knowledge for women before going abroad, and marriage procedure assistance. The VWU has also actively collaborated with the Vietnamese Embassies and representative offices abroad on guiding and helping the Vietnamese brides to have a stable life, on promoting international cooperation to protect legal rights and dignity of Vietnamese women.
Mme. Bui Thi Hoa also said that VWU would make recommendations to the relevant governmental agencies of Vietnam to improve the laws on ensuring the legal rights of returnee women as well as regulations on policies for Vietnamese-Korean children.
The Can Tho Women's Union signed a cooperation agreement with KOCUN in implementing pre-departure program for 6,000 women in the Mekong Delta provinces before coming to the Republic of Korea as marriage migrants, of which 2.976 participants from Can Tho City; in building 15 Friendship Clubs of Vietnamese brides’ relatives in districts having a large number of women marrying Koreans.
According to the Korea Statistics Bureau, by the end of 2016, one out of five Vietnamese married women in Korea (19.25%) was divorced. The number of Vietnamese-Korean divorced families having adolescents children accounted for 19% of total cases, equivalent to 3,777 children. VWU’s Vice President Bui Thi Hoa (second from the left) at the workshop 
