At the event (Photo: VNA) Hai Phong (VNA) – A workshop was held in the northern city of Hai Phong on December 12 to discuss ways to support women and children in Vietnamese-Korean marriages who return home after breakups.
Participants looked at the legal and psychological difficulties faced by women in broken Vietnam – Korea multi-cultural families and Vietnamese–Korean children living in Hai Phong and other provinces.
Vice Chairwoman of the Vietnam Women’s Union provincial chapter Vu Thi Kim Lien said Hai Phong handled over 6,000 applications for marriages with foreign partners from 2015 to 2019, more than 3,000 of which were between Vietnamese and Korean citizens.
Some marriages ended with a divorce, with many Vietnamese women returning home. A number of them have not officially divorced.
Many Vietnamese children born in the Republic of Korea (RoK) do not have personal papers when they return home, which are obstacles for them to get citizenship, birth registration, schooling and social insurance.
Prof. Kim Hyun-mee from the Department of Cultural Anthropology at the RoK’s Yonsei University said a 2017 survey in the RoK counted over 92,400 marriages between Vietnamese and Korean people. The rate of divorce in those marriages was about one fifth. He said many Vietnamese women in those broken marriages returned to the home country without completing divorce process, and some took along their children, resulting in legal issues for both them and their children.
Han Seung-mi at the Graduate School of International Studies under Yeonsei University said the Vietnam – Korea Centre and the Korea Centre for United Nations Human Rights Policy (KOCUN) could offer advice to repatriated women about the legal procedures necessary to file for a divorce in the RoK.
Phung Cong Vinh, former chief of the administrative and judicial office under the Hai Phong municipal Justice Department, suggested establishing a centre to support Vietnamese women who marry foreigners, and issue legal regulations for its operation./.
Participants looked at the legal and psychological difficulties faced by women in broken Vietnam – Korea multi-cultural families and Vietnamese–Korean children living in Hai Phong and other provinces.
Vice Chairwoman of the Vietnam Women’s Union provincial chapter Vu Thi Kim Lien said Hai Phong handled over 6,000 applications for marriages with foreign partners from 2015 to 2019, more than 3,000 of which were between Vietnamese and Korean citizens.
Some marriages ended with a divorce, with many Vietnamese women returning home. A number of them have not officially divorced.
Many Vietnamese children born in the Republic of Korea (RoK) do not have personal papers when they return home, which are obstacles for them to get citizenship, birth registration, schooling and social insurance.
Prof. Kim Hyun-mee from the Department of Cultural Anthropology at the RoK’s Yonsei University said a 2017 survey in the RoK counted over 92,400 marriages between Vietnamese and Korean people. The rate of divorce in those marriages was about one fifth. He said many Vietnamese women in those broken marriages returned to the home country without completing divorce process, and some took along their children, resulting in legal issues for both them and their children.
Han Seung-mi at the Graduate School of International Studies under Yeonsei University said the Vietnam – Korea Centre and the Korea Centre for United Nations Human Rights Policy (KOCUN) could offer advice to repatriated women about the legal procedures necessary to file for a divorce in the RoK.
Phung Cong Vinh, former chief of the administrative and judicial office under the Hai Phong municipal Justice Department, suggested establishing a centre to support Vietnamese women who marry foreigners, and issue legal regulations for its operation./.
VNA
