One more Vietnamese bride reported dead in Korea
The last letter of a Vietnamese bride in Korea
Le Thi Kim Dong and her husband at their wedding.
The bride, named Tran Thi Thu An or Le Thi Kim Dong in Vietnam, connected towels and clothes together to make a rope, tied it around her body and attempted to climb down from her balcony to the ground. 
Unluckily, the rope slipped from her body and she fell from the 9th floor of an apartment block in Deagu, a city in central
Reporters of the MBC channel went to Kim Dong’s hometown in
Her family currently keeps only a few photos of the girl, including photos of her wedding with the Korean husband. In the pictures, the girl is smiling very brightly and happily beside her husband. She was very young, just 21.
Kim Dong’s family is very poor. Before she got married, her family owed a debt of VND60 million (US$3,700) due to continuous harvest losses.
To get married to a Korean man, the girl went to
After the wedding, the girl’s family received only $300 and a large-sized wedding photo. on January 14, 2007, the Vietnamese bride flew to
After that, tragedy came to the young girl. She was confined in house, beaten and had to ‘serve’ her husband all night.
“My daughter called home many times to cry and said that she was maltreated by her husband. She could call home while her husband was having a shower only,” said the girl’s father.
“Several days before my daughter died, she called home five times but all of the calls were missed,” said the unlucky girl’s mother.
The father said that his daughter died at the hospital on April 30 and on May 8 he received the news from the Korean Embassy in
“So far my family still doesn’t know much information about the case and why my daughter died. When will we receive her remains?” the father asked. At noon on August 19, many Korean and Vietnamese attended a ceremony to memorialise Vietnamese bride Huynh Mai, who was killed by her husband. Many people raised funds to help Mai’s family. In related news, the Central Vietnam Women’s Union has approved the “International marriage support project” funded by the Vietnamese Women’s Culture Centre in The project aims to protect the interests of Vietnamese women in marriages with foreigners. At first, the project will help improve the ability of around 30 marriage support centres in many provinces like An Giang, Tay Ninh, Soc Trang, Ca Mau, Dong Thap, Binh Phuoc, Hai Phong, Those centres will consult Vietnamese brides about marriages to foreigners and help them fulfill marriage formalities. In the event Vietnamese brides return home, those centres will help them to re-join the community.
