First Vietnamese-born woman runs for RoK’s legislative elections
Nguyen Ngoc Cam, aged 44, becomes the first Vietnamese-Korean chosen by the ruling Democratic Party of Korea (DP) to run for the 21st parliamentary elections scheduled for this April.
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 (Photo: VNA)
Seoul (VNA) – Nguyen Ngoc Cam, aged 44,becomes the first Vietnamese-Korean chosen by the ruling Democratic Party ofKorea (DP) to run for the 21st parliamentary elections scheduled for this April.
Cam, born in Long Thanh district, Vietnam’s Dong Nai province, got married witha Korean engineer when she worked as a translator for a Vietnamese constructionfirm in 1996. She left for the RoK in 1997, and was granted Korean citizenshipone year later.
While managing a forum on Korean-Vietnamese multicultural families in 2004, shegave advice, and helped many Vietnamese brides handle challenges such aslanguage 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 afterstudying Korean and getting master’s degree on law at Konkuk University. Camrecommended local authorities with rational policies for immigrants, as well asmade efforts to build a multicultural society in which people respect eachother, contributing to nurturing the Vietnam-RoK relations.
Three years ago, she was elected as Chairwoman of the Vietnamese PeopleAssociation in the RoK with 200,000 members. She is now a member of thePresidential Committee to Commemorate the 100th Anniversary of theEstablishment of the Provisional Government of the RoK, Director of the KoreaSupport Centre for Foreigners and Managing Director of the support centre formigrant workers in Seoul.
With considerable contributions to the Vietnamese community in the RoK and the immigrantcommunity there in general, Cam received a multitude of certificates of meritfrom the Korean President, and Vietnamese State.
The RoK’s upcoming legislative elections will be on April 15./.
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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 (Photo: VNA) 
