On July 7, Vietnamese woman, Thach Thi Hong Ngoc was murdered by her husband only one week after her arrival.  Her hometown is the impoverished city of Can Tho, Co Do county, Thoi Hao B town.  Upon hearing the news of her death, the entire family and neighbors were shocked.

For several days, the villagers of Hong Ngoc's hometown talked about her death.  Countless neighbors visited Hong Ngoc's house and shared the sadness of the loss with her mother. The mother whose name is Truong Thi Ut sat without a word.  Her eyes were red from crying and she was in a state of shock.

One neighbor, who held the mother's hand, said: "That poor kind, pretty child. Who would have known that the misfortune would come from marrying a foreigner because she was poor? In the house, there was nothing but a desk, a few chairs, and a memorial table that had been hastily set up.

Hong Ngoc's father, Thach Sang remarked that their house had been made from leaves and only recently with government support, they had built a new house. "Hong Ngoc was a kind, filial child.  Even though I felt as my insides had been torn out, because of our poverty, we married her off abroad for her happiness.  Now that this has happened, I am hurting as if my heart has been carved out of my chest. I regret that my child had to face her death in a faraway land."

Hong Ngoc was twenty-years-old and the third child. The eldest sister is married, the younger sister was married off to Taiwan, and the younger brother makes a living as a field hand. The youngest is now preparing her documents in order to get married to a man in Taiwan.  Because the family was so poor, female monks helped educate Hong Ngoc. When she was in the ninth grade, Hong Ngoc told her parents that she would quit school and help with her parents' work.  Two years before, she left for Ho Chi Minh with the help of some friends in order to help out her parents.  With the help of an acquaintance she sent 1,000,000 dong to her parents every month.

Although word spread that Hong Ngoc had been married off to a foreigner, her parents continued to live out by working as field hands. As if something was caught in her throat, the mother said, "Through a brokerage, Hong Ngoc met Jang. The next day, it was decided that they would be married. They said that they were married on February 18 at a restaurant in Ho Chi Minh.

Before the wedding, the bridegroom gave 3,800,000 dong to the bride's parents. However, it cost 1,800,000 dong for the bride's parents to get from Co Do to Ho Chi Minh and afterward, the bridegroom's side gave an additional 500 dollars to the bride.

With tears streaming down her face, the mother said: "After marriage, the couple came to see us and stayed one night. The next day, they left hurriedly, saying that they had to return to Korea.  That day was the last day we saw her." On June 30, Hong Ngoc got on the plane with her husband and left for Korea. On the afternoon of July 1, she called her parents to tell them that she was healthy and doing well.  A few days had passed with no word, and when the parents called the son-in-law's house, no one answered. The mother said, "Since we could not get in touch, maybe something bad had happened since she was so far away? We could not sleep nor eat."

On the afternoon of July 9, Hong Ngoc's parents heard from a township official that their daughter had died after a she had gotten into a fight with her husband.  After that, a person from the marriage brokerage called to say that Jang had slapped Hong Ngoc in the face while fighting and that Hong Ngoc had fallen to the floor.  Unfortunately, she had fallen on a sharp object on the floor and it had penetrated the area where Hong Ngoc had recently had appendicitis surgery, killing her.

Hong Ngoc parents stated clearly that, "Hong Ngoc has never had appendicitis surgery." Further, a friend of Hong Ngoc's who had also married a Korean man had told them that she had heard about Hong Ngoc's death from a TV broadcast in Korea.  It was said that there was a large area in which the blood had spread.

In order for Hong Ngoc's parents to receive the body and to investigate the truth about the death, Nguyen Thi Ha from the Family and Society division of the Can Tho city Women's Federation filed a request for help from the headquarters of the Women's Federation.

This afternoon, Hong Ngoc's parents visited the Korean consulate in Ho Chi Minh city in order to inquire about the facts regarding Hong Ngoc's death and to prepare for their departure to Korea.

On July 13, a representative from the Korean consulate notified VnExpress.net of the Ho Chi Minh Korean community's condolences in sharing the loss with Hong Ngoc's  family. The flight expenses and expenses needed while staying in Korea are to be covered by the Korean government.

According to the Korean Times, a police station in Busan reported having discovered a dead Vietnamese woman in the husband's house on July 7.  Two days later, the police arrested Jang for murder.  Hong Ngoc arrived on July 1st without understanding any Korean nor her husband's mental disorder.  It is known that Jang was hospitalized five days before leaving for Vietnam to bring his bride back home.

Five days earlier, Jang had attacked his own mother. Jang's mother had said that her son was depressed because he had not married even though he was in his forties and that she had not told the bride about him taking medication due to concerns that she might worry.

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