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Yoon Ha’s Story: Part 3 – Making it to South Korea
March 16, 2017
This is the third part of a three-part story. Read part one about the hardships Yoon Ha experienced growing up in North Korea, and part two about being trafficked in Chin...
This is the second part of a three-part story. Read part one about the hardships Yoon Ha experienced growing up in North Korea that led her to escape. Part three follows ...
Yoon Ha resettled to South Korea through LiNK’s network about a year ago. She recently shared her story with us. This is part one of three. Continue to part two. When I...
“When I was young, my mom took me to go see a fortune teller. The fortune teller stared quite forcefully into my eyes, then said that she couldn’t see me—th...
Interview with Charles – North Korean Student at Coding Dojo
November 21, 2016
Charles escaped from North Korea and made the dangerous journey to safety without the help of a rescue. He resettled to the US in 2012, completing high school and soon ...
Meet Charles – A North Korean Living in the United States
November 21, 2016
Charles escaped from North Korea and made the dangerous journey through China without the help of a rescue network. We met Charles after he resettled in the United States...
In most societies, people think that having a large HD-TV is a sign of wealth and is highly desired. This is not the case in North Korea. In Jo Il’s hometown, and other...
Hae Ri escaped from North Korea out of fear that she would be sent to a political prison camp for watching South Korean TV shows after it happened to her friend's family....
Hae Sun was rescued while hiding in China in 2013. Now safely resettled in South Korea, she attends a two-year college as a business/Chinese major and she just finished h...
Achievements and Challenges: A Conversation with Sang Hoon
May 22, 2015
Sang Hoon never had a place to call his own in North Korea, often spending his nights in the homes of his friends and relatives. His thoughts regularly drifted to faraway...
A Realm of Possibilities: Catching Up with Eun Young and Min Gu
March 12, 2015
Eun Young and Min Gu are safely resettled in South Korea and are making lives for themselves in their new society. Our resettlement coordinator, Anna, recently met up wit...
Ji Min and Hyun Kyung gave our resettlement coordinator Jihyun a tour of their workplace. Though it was their day off, they showed him how they would usually work so the ...
Jin Kyung escaped North Korea after experiencing her own modern-day Cinderella story. Her parents divorced when she was still young, and for a short time she lived comfor...
New Beginnings: A Conversation with Hae Jung & Sue
December 4, 2014
Now safely resettled in South Korea, Hae Jung and her daughter are taking steps to acclimate to their new life. Hae Jung is working as a salesperson at a mobile phone com...
Since resettling in South Korea, Brian's been very busy. He began attending university shortly after he arrived, hoping to become a journalist in the future so he can ...
My Study Abroad Experience in San Francisco by Joo Yang
October 30, 2014
It’s already been a month since I came to the U.S. However, it feels like I’ve been here for many more months. I’m trying to experience and learn as much as possibl...
Min Sung is a sometimes shy, but gentle and generous person who has worked hard to achieve his dreams since resettling in South Korea. We had the opportunity to meet with...
Over the next couple months, we'll be visiting with several of our North Korean friends to get updates on their lives since they've resettled, which will be published on ...
Since escaping and resettling in the U.S. Donna's gone on to start her own business running a sushi kiosk in a university cafeteria. Though it’s been a one woman show, ...
