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Article: The two Koreas: A land divided; separated for nearly 60 years, North and South Korea are worlds apart. (World).(related article: North and South Korea)
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- Junior Scholastic
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- March 28, 2003
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Everything changed one night last August for 14-year-old Choi Soo-hyang (cha-way sue-he-ong). That's when her parents led her and her younger sister from their home in Sinuiju (shin-ya-joo), North Korea, a city near the Chinese border.
"I knew something was happening," Soo-hyang told JS. (Koreans say their family names first.) But she didn't know what until her family crammed into a small fishing boat with 17 relatives.
After two days at sea, the group arrived in South Korea. In Seoul (sole), the country's capital, Soo-hyang and her family got a lot of attention. North and South Korea have been separated since 1945, and the defection (leaving a place or ...