Korea has became Vietnam's best friend since the collapse of the Soviet Union. Vietnamese people in Vietnam speak highly about Korea and everything about Korea. I went to Vietnam and I called Korea as 'Dai Han' and Vietnamese people there did not like it. They called Korea as 'Han quoc'. Vietnamese in Vietnam got 'KoreanWashed?" what ya think?

Korea is not technically Vietnam's "best friend", but it's still a good "friend" to Vietnam. Daihan and hanquoc is interchangable.

what the hell are you talking about

Since the collapse of Soviet Union?

about how much Vietnamese people in Vietnam love you guys

Soviet Union used to be Vietnam's best friend before it collapsed.

Wow... I've never knew that. I thought vietnams was more friendly toward to countries like japan, china during the 70-80s'?

Both of them invaded Vietnam at some points.


as the matter of fact, Korea allied with the US during Vietnam war.

ive never heard of such thing. isnt vietnam more closely allied with china or russia?

China has been invading more than being friendly. Soviet Union provided aids to Vietnam.

we need all the friends we can get.. even if it has to be the Kool Koreans!!

are we that damn desperate ?

ahem.. I'm sure friends are useful for something... ifffffffff you know what i mean

lol Vietnam and China have had one war ever since Vietnam has been communists and other conflicts as well.

While Vietnam is communists, they are part of the "Soviet Communist" group, not China. While Cambodia was part of China's Communist group and thus we were enemies during the cold war.

South Korea is the number 4 largest investor in Vietnam I believe.

i think its koool!!!...korean pplz are coool!...i LOVE THEIR FOOOD..its so SPICY and YUMMY..lol...NOT TO MENTION THEIR LIQUOR SOJU!! oMGG..das BOMB..

Nam Hàn (South Korea) and Bắc Hàn (North Korea) were commonly used by people who used to live under the government of South Vietnam. When people use Ðại Hàn, usually they mean Nam Hàn or South Korea. In few cases, Ðại Hàn is also used for the whole Korea.
People who lived under the government of the North VN before 1975 and later the whole Vietnam (called the Socialist Republic of Vietnam), after 04/30/1975 but before the normalization of relationship between the Vietnam and South Korea in 1991 used the words "Cộng Hòa Dân Chủ Nhân Dân Triều Tiên" (more common, and more official) or "Bắc Triều Tiên" (less formal) for North Korea and "Nam Triều Tiên" for South Korea.
After normalization of relationship, Vietnam kept the same name for North Korea, but changed the name for South Korea to Hàn Quốc as requested by the side of South Korea (I was living in Vietnam at that time. Some people told me the South Korea requested Vietnam's side to use Hàn Quốc as its official name. I am not 100% sure if this is correct). By the way, Hàn Quốc is Ðại Hàn Dân Quốc in short.
In general, when regarding Korea as a nation, a history, a culture, Triều Tiên or Cao Ly is used.
Those are official names used for different period of present history. In fact, people can use them interchangeably as long as the listeners understand.
I don't know if the Vietnamese in Vietnam now got Korean-washed. At the time I still lived there, I knew very little about South Korea. Through my friends who are still living there, I know that now South Korean things are very popular.

well, i've learn something new...Next time people time to Bash Korea, i guess it's us Vietnamese job to help her out..hehe

I think you got a little wrong there my friend. 'Dai Han' means Korea not South Korea. Bac Han and Nam Han are for North and South Korea.

Calling them 'Han Quoc' to me is like 'kissing @$$'
Just like you call China as Trung Quoc but I call them 'Ba tau'

Technically, you are right. My previous post also addressed this. However, people sometimes use Ðại Hàn and Nam Hàn interchangeably. Of course, this fact doesn't make your argument wrong.



I don't understand why you think calling Hàn Quốc and Trung Quốc is that bad. The Vietnamese also call England Anh Quốc, the U.S. Mỹ Quốc, France Pháp Quốc, Gemany Ðức Quốc ... Other people call Vietnam Vietnam. Those are just the names. Also why calling Ðại Hàn is better than calling them Hàn Quốc?
However, this is what you want to call them. I thought you want to ask why and what Vietnamese people call them. Sorry.

i like to ask u guys.. who is number 1 invester in vietnam??
even though u guys think koreans are ur friends,, in reality do they think u as their freinds??

i believe taiwan is the number 1 investor in vietnam

so that mean taiwans are more friendly to vietnam... not korea.. they only ranked 4th..

No Singapore is.

Bull$hit! If I want to call Korea "Dai Han," who's going to stop me caling it Dai Han? Those Vietnamese should be dragged to the streets and be shot in the head! They are brainwashed!

if u call korea Da Han.. u should call vietnam Xiao Viet ... korea @$$hole kisser

You are fu-ked up.

because i know that Vietnam is whole lot bigger than Korea...

Why the hell do you want to suck up to korea? You think they are gonna support you or worry about themselves?

maybe that's thing he likes to do...

of course korean people don't give a damn about other people, because they have to worry their own economic problems..

I don't suck up to anyone but I do believe everyone is human and deserves to be treated with respect.

i don't think he or she is talking about u..

How many Vietnamese have become "KoreanWashed"?
Loving Korean movies, musics, and styles doesn't mean being "KoreanWashed".
It's a trendy thing, trends come and go. Don't get wrong impression on one aspect of the Vietnamese diversified society.

Byron the great!!!

I eat Chinese food regularly does this mean I'm Chinese washed???

Of course not, i eat Chinese Food all the time.

what are you a korean specialist?

that's big news... at 2003 ur country GPD only growed 2.8% but anyway.. i know korean plus everyone in the world are pretty selfish...

bryon here is a poem i wrote about you

if byron is the sky
bryon can be blue and white and sometime grey
sometimes bryon crys and sometime he mad and boom..
bryon is yelling, ARRRRRGH run byron is spiting a fire
but eventually byron happy again and show his yellow face
i like byron and his many face.

the end

Like most human beings my mood changes.

Not true. Korea has longstanding interest in Vietnam. It poured a lot of $$ into the country since the 90s. I think Koreans believe that the country has a lot of potential. And the Vietnamese people I've met are quite smart, too.

Stop blabbering about something you know nothing about.

i wrote it in Rockheart Stanza.

we have ourselves an economy and ethnic specialist. bravo.

We really don't have to worry growing unlike you guys cause we're already there. You're spouting nonsense everywhere you go.

well that's what korean specialist said in news....

no i think you're the best economy and ethnic specialist there is. you should go teach in harvard.

well u can say whatever u want..

Developed country don't grow that much..

that's too little.. u know.. the current korea economy are similar with japan during the 90th.. which means recession/depression or slow growin..

You're a freakin' retard and you have no idea what you're talking about so quit it.

Dear 福州市长, and Khu91X

You've come a LONG way to continue your personal vandetta against Koreans. Why the HELL would YOU care what the Vietnamese think about Koreans? Whether they're kissing our @$$es or not (I personally don't think so, it's all your own twisted intrepretation) Who cares? So what? What's it to you? None of this concerns you or your people! Yet you insult him without provocation, and then proceed to alienate and spoil Korean-Vietnamese relationship by spreading lies and half-truths about our country.

Stop trying so hard you guys, your inferiority complex is showing.