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Expanded Support in 2024 for Multicultural and North Korean Defector Students Through Mentoring Program

Expanded Support in 2024 for Multicultural and North Korean Defector Students Through Mentoring Program

SEJONG, Feb. 7 (Korea Bizwire) – The Ministry of Education and the Korea Student Aid Foundation have announced plans to expand the “2024 Multicultural and North Korean Defector Student Mentoring Program.” This initiative pairs college and graduate students with multicultural and North Korean defector students to assist with Korean language education and adaptation to school life [...]

Unification Ministry Says Many N. Koreans in China Believed to Have Been Repatriated

Unification Ministry Says Many N. Koreans in China Believed to Have Been Repatriated

SEOUL, Oct. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Many North Koreans appear to have been repatriated from China, the unification ministry said Friday after a recent news report that about 600 North Koreans have forcibly been sent back home. “It appears to be true that many North Korean residents in three northeastern Chinese provinces have been repatriated,” [...]

Seoul Unveils Steps to Improve Resettlement Support for N. Korean Defectors

Seoul Unveils Steps to Improve Resettlement Support for N. Korean Defectors

SEOUL, March 16 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea decided to increase the level of support for North Korean defectors’ resettlement to better protect their new-found livelihoods here, the unification ministry said Thursday. The ministry opted to raise the resettlement basic subsidy for North Korean defectors by 1 million won (US$760) to 9 million won per [...]

More Prejudice Against Sexual Minorities than Migrant Workers and N. Korean Defectors

More Prejudice Against Sexual Minorities than Migrant Workers and N. Korean Defectors

SEOUL, May 18 (Korea Bizwire) — Koreans’ prejudice against sexual minorities is more serious and explicit than other minority groups such as migrant workers and North Korean defectors, a recent study showed. A survey of 1,000 adult men and women nationwide conducted by the Korea Institute for Health and Social Affairs (KIHASA) from Oct. 21 [...]

Defector Exposes North Korean Reality through Rap Music

Defector Exposes North Korean Reality through Rap Music

SEOUL, Dec. 14 (Korea Bizwire) – Kang Chun-hyok, a 31-year-old born in North Hamgyong Province, escaped North Korea in 1998 with his family and was granted asylum in the South in 2001.  His vision and new life in South Korea has been somewhat different from other North Korean defectors residing here – he was determined [...]