SEOUL, Dec. 29 (Korea Bizwire) – In a rare event hosted by the United States Forces Korea, four North Korean defectors shared their stories with the members of the 6th Battalion 52nd Air Defense Artillery Regiment on December 2 at Suwon Air Base, reported American military newspaper Stars and Stripes. Among the defectors were Ken [...]
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 [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 28 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea on Sunday unveiled a set of measures to better support North Korean defectors, including ways to help them find work in the public sector, as their total number here has surpassed the 30,000 mark. The Ministry of Unification announced a seven-point plan to help defectors better integrate [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 7 (Korea Bizwire) – The number of North Korean defectors coming to South Korea rose 15 percent on-year in the first eight months of 2016, government data showed Wednesday, as the North’s leader is tightening his iron-fisted rule on the country. In the January-August period, 894 North Koreans escaped and arrived in South [...]
SUWON, July 27 (Korea Bizwire) – A North Korean defector who has been living in South Korea for seven years was sentenced to one year in prison with two years of probation for trying to re-enter North Korea. Park Pan-gyu, a judge at the Suwon District Court, ruled that a 24-year-old female defector only referred to [...]
SEOUL, July 19 (Korea Bizwire) – Teenage North Koreans who defected to the South are experiencing barracks life first hand with the country’s special forces in a program aimed at boosting their confidence so they can better adjust to life here, the Army said Tuesday. It said 41 students from Yeomyung School in Seoul are training [...]
SEOUL, May 24 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s Ministry of Unification said Tuesday that a small number of North Korean restaurant staff have recently escaped their workplace in China. The confirmation comes a day after local media reported two or three North Koreans are moving to a third country after fleeing a Pyongyang-run restaurant in [...]
SEOUL, May 3 (Korea Bizwire) — Many North Korean defectors have experienced difficulties finding jobs in South Korea because of their accent and the way they speak, a survey carried out by a local human rights watchdog said Tuesday. The poll of 1,400 North Korean defectors aged 15 years and older was conducted by the [...]
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“[South Korean activists] had better not provoke North Korea for now. Their push to release anti-North Korea balloons might backfire and do harmful effects on us.” “If their acts bring on the ire of North Korean regime and result in damage on us, we are no good for each other anyway. We should contemplate other [...]
SEOUL, South Korea, July 23 (Korea Bizwire) – The Ministry of Security and Public Administration said on July 22 that it would hire a total of 11 government employees from former North Korean residents who have defected to the south. The 11 job openings include five general administration positions with the Ministry of Employment and [...]