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Article: Challenges Ahead for Young North Korean Defectors in South Korea.
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- YON - Yonhap News Agency of Korea
- Article date:
- April 11, 2004
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By Kim HyunSEOUL, April 11 (Yonhap) -- Sporting blue jeans and dangling a fancy cell phone around his neck, Kim Jin-su, a 23-year-old North Korean defector, looks just like any other young man in South Korea. (His name was changed for this story to protect his relatives in the North from possible persecution.)But he is shy when speaking in public, mindful that his accent may reveal that he is a North Korean defector. He knows that despite ethnic ties, South Koreans generally look down upon North Korean defectors."In the class, my group wanted me to be a leader and give a presentation because I was the oldest, but I said no," said Kim, a junior studying ...