A project to give support to Vietnamese women in their marriage relations with Korean husbands was launched in Vi Thanh, the capital city of the Mekong Delta province of Hau Giang, on Thursday. This marriage support project, worth US$390,000, was jointly run by the Vietnamese Women’s Cultural Center (VWCC) in the Republic of Korea (RoK) and the Vietnam Women’s Union (VWU).

The project will be piloted in Hau Giang and the northern province of Hai Duong for 18 months, VWCC General Director Koo Gyo Hoom said at the launch ceremony.

It will focus on education, consultation and giving pre- and post-marriage assistance, with an aim to enhance awareness of women in these localities of cross-culture marriage in line with the two countries’ relevant laws and regulations, Koo said. He added that the project will thereby contribute to reducing the risk of illegal international marriage brokerage. VWU Vice President Bui Thi Hoa emphasized that knowledge of cross-culture marriage must be further provided for Vietnamese women, and the operations of marriage consulting centers should be improved in order to help make the project a success. According to the Ministry of Public Security statistics, more than 115,600 Vietnamese citizens married foreigners from over 50 countries and territories from 2008 to June 2014. In Hau Giang alone, more than 11,000 women have got married to foreigners since 2004, and 70 percent of these women married South Korean men, the ministry said.

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