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Article: South Korean Life Demanding for Young North Korean Defectors.
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- YON - Yonhap News Agency of Korea
- Article date:
- December 2, 2003
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By Kim Kwang-taeSEOUL, Dec. 2 (Yonhap) -- A growing number of North Korean youth is joining the wave of North Koreans who make their way to South Korea with hopes for a rosy new life.For most North Korean youth, defection has almost become synonymous with the end of poverty and oppression under a Stalinist regime and the onset of new life with hope of a better future.As time elapses after defection, the youth appear to find life difficult in the capitalist South as they frequently fail to adjust to the local school system mainly because of discrepancies between the northern youth and their southern classmates in academic performance and age.Kim ...