Cam, born in Long Thanh district, Vietnam’s Dong Nai province, got married with a Korean engineer when she worked as a translator for a Vietnamese construction firm in 1996. She left for the RoK in 1997, and was granted Korean citizenship one year later.

Nguyen Ngoc Cam, a Vietnamese-Korean, was chosen by the ruling Democratic Party of Korea (DP) to run for the 21st parliamentary elections in the Republic of Korea.

While managing a forum on Korean-Vietnamese multicultural families in 2004, she gave advice, and helped many Vietnamese brides handle challenges such as language and culture differences when they began a new life in the country.

She then became an activist for the rights of immigrants in the RoK after studying Korean and getting master’s degree on law at Konkuk University. Cam recommended local authorities with rational policies for immigrants, as well as made efforts to build a multicultural society in which people respect each other, contributing to nurturing the Vietnam-RoK relations.

Three years ago, she was elected as Chairwoman of the Vietnamese People Association in the RoK with 200,000 members. She is now a member of the Presidential Committee to Commemorate the 100th Anniversary of the Establishment of the Provisional Government of the RoK, Director of the Korea Support Centre for Foreigners and Managing Director of the support centre for migrant workers in Seoul.

With considerable contributions to the Vietnamese community in the RoK and the immigrant community there in general, Cam received a multitude of certificates of merit from the Korean President, and Vietnamese State.

The RoK’s upcoming legislative elections will be on April 15.

Women’s team lose to RoK in Olympics qualifiers

The Vietnamese women’s football team lost 0-3 to their Korean rivals in Group A’s final match of the Tokyo Olympics 2020 qualifiers in the Republic of Korea (RoK) on February 9.

ROK to import over 55,000 tonnes of Vietnamese rice

The Republic of Korea (ROK) has opened its market to Vietnamese rice, grating a quota of 55,112 tonnes of rice from Vietnam only.

Former governor of RoK province honoured

Former governor of Gyeongsangbuk province of the Republic of Korea (RoK) Kim Kwan-yong on January 10 was honoured with the third-class Labour Order of Vietnam.

RoK tops foreign investors in Vietnam in 2019

The Republic of Korea (RoK) is the leading foreign investor in Vietnam in 2019, pouring 7.92 billion USD into the country, accounting for over one fifth of the total flow of foreign direct investment into Vietnam during the year.

Vietnamese people in RoK celebrate Tet

Nearly 500 Vietnamese living, studying, and working in the Republic of Korea (RoK) and Korean friends gathered in Seoul on December 22 to celebrate the traditional Lunar New Year (Tet) – the biggest holiday in Vietnam.

Source: VNA