SEOUL, Feb. 21 (Korea Bizwire) – The Seoul city government will provide North Korean defectors with free health checkups, online tutoring services for students and other support measures to help them better settle in their new homeland, officials said Monday. It is the first time in nine years that Seoul has put together support measures [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — The South Korean government launched an interagency team Monday tasked with helping North Korean defectors suffering from economic and psychological difficulties after resettlement here. The nine-member team, comprising officials from different government agencies, will provide support in fields ranging from education and employment to living and psychological counseling for [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s unification ministry in charge of inter-Korean affairs has presented gifts to young North Korean defectors without families on the occasion of the Lunar New Year holiday, officials said. The government delivered daily necessities and other items to North Korean defectors aged 24 or under without families ahead [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — The South Korean government is preparing to launch a new team to step up support for North Korean defectors suffering from economic and psychological difficulties after resettlement here, officials said Thursday. The team — which will comprise of officials from different government agencies, including the unification ministry and the [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — A North Korean defector crossed the border last week to return home last week, raising questions over why some defectors return to North after defecting to South Korea. According to the Ministry of Unification, the number of defectors who returned to North Korea after defecting to the South totaled [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — The state human rights watchdog has rejected a petition accusing the government of a human rights violation over its decision to revoke the license of an anti-North Korea group of defectors for sending propaganda leaflets across the border, sources said Sunday. The petition was filed with the National Human [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — For many North Korean defectors in South Korea, Lunar New Year has been an occasion to get together near the border and perform joint ancestral rites while looking into the north. This year, the coronavirus pandemic has dashed those plans, as the government has extended a ban on private [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of North Koreans defecting to South Korea dropped sharply last year apparently due to the North’s border closure to prevent an outbreak of the coronavirus, government data showed Wednesday. According to the data provided by the unification ministry, a total of 229 North Koreans settled down in [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — Over 26 percent of North Korean defectors living in South Korea sent remittances back to the communist country this year, a survey showed Thursday. According to the poll conducted by the Database Center for North Korean Human Rights (NKDB) and NK Social Research (NKSR), a survey agency specializing in [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — Two in five defectors who returned to the North lived in South Korea for less than three years, a lawmaker said Saturday, urging authorities to pay greater attention to the management of former North Koreans here. Rep. Lee Sang-min of the ruling Democratic Party, citing data obtained from the [...]