By Kwon Mee-yoo
Staff Reporter
Two sisters-in-law and a stepdaughter of a Vietnamese immigrant wife were fined for beating her after she allegedly failed to tend to her mother-in-law's needs.
A district court in Changwon, South Gyeongsang Province, imposed a fine of 700,000 won each on the women, both in their forties. It also slapped a 300,000-won fine on the 26-year-old stepdaughter on the same charges.
The sisters-in-law said they had been unsatisfied with the woman's care of their mother.
They beat her in a fit of anger after she bowed at the funeral of the mother, who passed away on June 30. The victim suffered injuries that will take three weeks to heal, according to police.