Lai Đại Hàn
People born to Vietnamese mothers and Korean soldiers during the Vietnam War / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Lai Đại Hàn ([laːi ɗâˀi hâːn]; Korean: 라이따이한)[lower-alpha 1] is a term used in the Vietnamese language to refer to a person who was born to a Vietnamese mother and a South Korean father during the Vietnam War. The births of these people occurred because of South Korean involvement in the Vietnam War; approximately 350,000 South Korean soldiers were deployed to South Vietnam between 1964 and 1973. It is a politically significant term with regard to South Korea–Vietnam relations and carries a heavy social stigma due to the fact that wartime sexual violence was endemic in Vietnam when these people were conceived. A large number of Lai Đại Hàn births were the result of pregnancies from rape, as various studies have determined that around half of all sexual encounters involving South Korean soldiers and Vietnamese women were not consensual. The community has faced unequal and discriminatory treatment from the Vietnamese government, while the South Korean government has refused to acknowledge and address the rape of Vietnamese women during the conflict.