Here is something you just don’t see happen with a high profile government official visiting South Korea. Considering he did this to a woman he doesn’t know during a state sponsored trip, you know he is doing this to women working around him in Vietnam:
This photo, provided by the defense ministry, shows Vice Defense Minister Lee Doo-hee (L) shaking hands with his Vietnamese counterpart, Hoang Xuan Chien, in Seoul on Sept. 11, 2025. (Yonhap)
The defense ministry has summoned a Vietnamese defense attache stationed in South Korea over alleged sexual misconduct by Vietnam’s deputy defense minister during his visit to Seoul last month, military officials said Monday.
According to the officials, Senior Lt. Gen. Hoang Xuan Chien inappropriately touched a South Korean public servant during a banquet with high-ranking military officials on Sept. 11.
The Vietnamese vice defense minister was visiting Seoul on the occasion of the Seoul Defense Dialogue on Sept. 8-10.
Given the gravity of the case, the ministry summoned the Vietnamese defense attache eight days later to lodge a protest over the deputy minister’s behavior.
Considering how capitalist Vietnam is sometimes people forget they are still ruled by a Communist regime:
Vietnam’s top leader, To Lam, will visit North Korea to mark the 80th founding anniversary of the North’s ruling Workers’ Party of Korea, state media reported Monday.
The Vietnamese leader will pay a state visit to the North at the invitation of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un on the occasion of the party anniversary set for Friday, the Korean Central News Agency reported in a short dispatch.
Vietnam’s foreign ministry also announced that Lam will visit North Korea for three days starting Thursday.
It would mark the first trip to North Korea by a Vietnamese leader in 18 years.
Vietnam’s top leader arrives in S. Korea on state visit Vietnam’s top leader, To Lam (L), and his wife, Ngo Phuong Ly, wave to a welcome delegation upon arriving at Seoul Air Base in Seongnam, south of Seoul, as Lam embarks on a state visit at the invitation of President Lee Jae Myung. Lam and Lee are scheduled to hold summit talks Monday. (Yonhap)
According to the article, unsurprisingly the Korean woman in this altercation was drunk. Some people really should not drink, especially when traveling overseas:
A video of a Korean woman assaulting a Vietnamese woman at a self-photo booth in Hanoi has gone viral online, sparking outrage among local residents, according to news reports Wednesday.
The Vietnamese victim revealed the incident in her social media post on Tuesday, saying she and her friend were using the booth around 9 p.m. on July 11, after paying properly and within their allotted time.
A Korean woman approached them while they were taking photos, and according to the victim, told them to hurry up and come out.
Security camera footage shows the Korean woman striking the victim on the arm and a full-blown physical altercation began when she snatched her hat. The two women grabbed each other’s hair. Despite attempts by their companions and staff to intervene, the fight lasted several minutes.
The footage showed the Korean woman kicked the Vietnamese woman after she fell to the ground and continued assaulting her after they exited the booth.
A Chinese fishing vessel hit & sank a Vietnamese fishing boat inside Vietnam's EEZ near Paracel Island!
This wasn't an accident but a planned attack by Chinese fishing militia to instill fear in Vietnamese fishermen so that they do not sail in the waters claimed by China! 1/4 pic.twitter.com/ub1S3DYdST
S. Korean, Vietnamese first ladies South Korean first lady Kim Keon Hee (L) talks with her Vietnamese counterpart, Phan Thi Thanh Tam, in Hanoi on June 23, 2023. (Yonhap)
Yoon meets S. Korean residents in Vietnam South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol speaks during a meeting with South Korean residents in Vietnam at a Hanoi hotel on June 22, 2023. Yoon is on a three-day state visit to the Southeast Asian country. (Yonhap)
This really is one of the most amazing transformations to Korea since I first came. There are so many small towns now filled with Vietnamese and other foreign language signs. People from SE Asia setting up their own restaurants, etc. It's great to see.https://t.co/45MEYgpzA7
I did not realize there was that many Vietnamese in the southwest Gyeongi-do area to support their own club, much less one trafficking in illegal drugs:
South Korean police on Saturday arrested 10 people for suspected illegal drug use after raiding a foreigners-only club in Siheung, Gyeonggi Province.
According to officials, five police stations across the provincial cities of Siheung, Osan, Hwaseong and Ansan conducted a joint crackdown of a local club located in Jeongwang-dong, Siheung, arresting two Koreans and eight Vietnamese. One of the Koreans was a man in his 40s who owns the club — operated exclusively for Vietnamese — while three of the Vietnamese were club workers.
The police raided the venue after receiving a tip-off that “100 people were doing drugs at a Vietnamese club.” Officials ran drug tests on the 70 people who were at the club and arrested 10 people who tested positive.
It is interesting that the ROK government is using the same argument that the Japanese have been using to deny paying reparations to individual Koreans for World War II era atrocities, that a post-war agreement between the ROK, the US and Vietnam nullified these claims:
Nguyen Thi Thanh expresses her feelings through a video chat after the Central District Court orders the Korean government to pay approximately 3 million won and losses incurred by the delay to her, Tuesday. Newsis
A district court has ruled in favor of a Vietnamese national who filed a lawsuit against the Korean government for the 1968 atrocities committed by Korean troops against Vietnamese civilians during the Vietnam War.
It is the first time that a Korean court ruled against the Korean government regarding the atrocities committed by the ROK Marine Corps.
On Tuesday, the Central District Court ordered the Korean government to pay approximately 3 million won and losses incurred by the delay.
“(Then) the soldiers of the 2nd Korean Marine Brigade entered the plaintiff’s house and threatened the family members at gunpoint to force them outside. And then they fired at them. The court acknowledges that the family members of the plaintiff were killed on the spot and the plaintiff was seriously wounded as a consequence,” the ruling reads. “This is obviously illegal.”
The court denied the Korean government’s claim that a Vietnamese national cannot file a lawsuit against the Korean government as stated in the military accord signed among Korea, the United States and Vietnam, saying that the agreement signed by military authorities and government institutions itself didn’t make Vietnamese civilians ineligible to seek compensation from the Korean government.
You can read more at the link, but considering what is alleged to have happened the compensation is very low:
Nguyen Thi Thanh, 62, filed a compensation suit against the Korean government in 2020. As a victim of a wartime massacre by Korean marines, she has sought an apology from the Korean government along with 3,000,100 won ($2393) in compensation ― the minimum amount required for a court ruling.
The troops in question were from the 2nd Marine Division, also known as Blue Dragon Division. They allegedly killed 74 unarmed civilians in the villages of Phong Nhi and Phong Nhat of Qu?ng Nam Province in Vietnam, where Nguyen lived, on Feb. 12, 1968.
“Korean soldiers shouted and threatened families with grenades to come outside,” Nguyen said at the Seoul Central District Court, last August. She is the first Vietnamese to testify about the atrocities before a Korean court.
