SEOUL, Dec. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — The employment rate of North Korean defectors in South Korea reached a new high of 60.5 percent earlier this year, a report showed Wednesday, in a sign of improving living conditions for those who fled from the North. The April figure — which serves as annual statistics for North [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — The unification ministry said Thursday it is working to verify speculation that China sent back hundreds of North Korean defectors earlier this week, stressing that any North Korean refugees should not be repatriated to the North against their will. China forcibly repatriated around 600 North Korean defectors detained in [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — Nine North Korean workers dispatched to Russia for dollar earnings defected to South Korea late last year amid Moscow’s protracted war with Ukraine, according to a professor in the South on Wednesday. The North Koreans, all men aged between 20s and 50s, came to the South in December 2022 [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea on Thursday issued an interagency advisory against the hiring of North Korean information technology (IT) workers with disguised nationalities amid reports that the country is using them as a source of foreign currency earnings. In the advisory, the foreign, unification and ICT ministries called on local companies [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korean state media outlets mentioned the death of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe for the first time on Sunday, calling him a “a samurai descendant” who committed numerous crimes against Korean people. DPRK Today, a propaganda website, mentioned Abe while slamming South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol for [...]
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. 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, 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 [...]
SEOUL, July 1 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of North Korean defectors coming into South Korea recorded an all-time low in the second quarter this year due to the new coronavirus, the unification ministry said Wednesday. According to the ministry, 12 defectors were estimated to have entered the country from April to June this year, [...]
SEOUL, April 18 (Korea Bizwire) — Tens of thousands of South Koreans have signed a petition calling for the mandatory construction of residential flats for North Korean defectors in the ritzy district of Gangnam, southern Seoul, following a high-profile defector’s election in the constituency. In apparent derision of the Gangnam residents who elected Tae Ku-min [...]