SEOUL — The Vietnamese Embassy in the Republic of Korea (RoK) held a get-together to welcome the Tết (Lunar New Year) on Wednesday or the first day of the Year of the Snake.

Ambassador Vũ Hồ extended his New Year greetings to all attendees, wishing them a peaceful, happy, healthy and successful year.

Earlier, on Sunday, as part of activities to bring the warm spring atmosphere of the homeland to the Vietnamese community in the RoK, Deputy Ambassador Nguyễn Thị Thái Bình visited two exemplary families of Vietnamese brides in Ilsan city, Gyeonggi province and Seongdong district in Seoul, on the Tết occasion.

Binh presented Tết gifts that are rich in Vietnamese flavours to the families, wishing them a year full of happiness and success.

She also expressed her hope that the Vietnamese-Korean multicultural families will continue to make positive contributions to the development of the two countries’ relationship.

On this occasion, the embassy’s representatives also visited and gave Tết gifts to the family of Huỳnh Thị Thái, one of the first Vietnamese women to marry Koreans in 1973.— VNS