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When North Korea "falls" and the citizens are shown and told all aspects of modern civilization and (by Sparky)
When North Korea "falls" and the citizens are shown and told all aspects of modern civilization and culture, what do you think the biggest shock will be for them?
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Freedom to do, say, n be who you want to be.
When North Korea "falls" and the citizens
are shown and told all aspects of modern
civilization and culture, what do you think
the biggest shock will be for them?
are shown and told all aspects of modern
civilization and culture, what do you think
the biggest shock will be for them?
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=oJue-dg...v-google&gl=US
Last edited by WalkSoftly; 8-Oct-14 3:57 am.
That cats and dogs are pets not a food product
They will be lost, after being lead for so long. And will undoubtedly, ask for money. Which they'll get with strings attached, like military bases.
They will be lost, after being lead for so
long.
long.
"" ANSEONG, South Korea -- To flee
North Korea and arrive in the rich,
wired, consuming culture of South
Korea is to feel clueless, fearful and
guilty.
Teenagers are particularly bewildered.
As part of the newest wave in a
decade-old flow of defectors from the
North, they arrive stunted from
malnutrition and struggling to read.
At the movies for the first time, they
panic when the lights go down, afraid
someone might kidnap them. They
find it incredible that money is stored
in plastic credit cards. Pizza, hot dogs
and hamburgers -- staples of South
Korean teen cuisine -- give them
indigestion. One gargled with liquid
fabric softener, mistaking it for
mouthwash.
In time, they wise up and
their stomachs calm down. Their guilt,
though, tends to fester.
"When I eat something that is really
delicious, I can't help but feel guilty about
my family back in North Korea," said Lee
J.Y., who asked that her full name not be
used because she was afraid that North
Korean authorities would punish her family
for her freedom. Now 20, Lee escaped five
years ago from North Hamgyong province,
where her little brother died of hunger and
where she survived on cake made of pine-
tree bark.
Defectors in the late 1990s were mostly
young men without families. They could
swim or sneak across the border into China.
In recent years, though, about 80 percent of
defectors have been middle-aged women,
many with children in tow. Most of these
women were traders -- and in many cases,
cross-border smugglers -- for the private
markets that have spread across North
Korea. Often, they bribed their way across
the border.
They filter into South Korea at the rate of
about 35 a week, usually after months or
years in China and an arduous detour
through Vietnam, Burma or Thailand.
About 15,000 defectors have settled in the
South, with 4,000 arriving in the past two
years.
Seoul does not encourage North Koreans to
defect. But once they arrive, the South
Korean government quietly grants them
citizenship, gives them an apartment and
tries to teach them how not to sink in an
education-obsessed capitalist culture.
Trusting No One
"Everyone who defects has adjustment
problems," said Ko Gyoung-bin, director
general of a settlement center called
Hanowan, a government-financed cluster of
red-brick buildings perched in hill country
about 70 miles south of Seoul.
All adult defectors are required to spend
three months at Hanowan, where they
receive psychiatric counseling, learn their
rights under South Korean law, take driving
lessons and go on field trips to department
stores, banks and subways.
Teenage defectors spend two months to two
years at nearby Hangyoreh Middle-High
School, a remedial boarding school the
government built three years ago to help the
increasing number of newly arrived
youngsters who are unfit for public schools.
Many have been out of school for years and
have difficulty with basic reading and
math.
"All I learned in school in North Korea was
that Kim Jong Il was the best leader and
that North Korea was the best country,"
said Lee, who is in her final year at
Hangyoreh and hopes to become an English
teacher.
"Education in North Korea is useless for life
in this country," said the school's principal,
Gwak Jong-moon. "When you are too
hungry, you don't go to learn and teachers
don't go to teach. Many children have been
hiding in China for years with no access to
schools.""
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@WalkSoftly: The Southern Government helping & careing for their IWN countrymen is great. But I'm curios as to the down side of such an influx if poor, uneducated people pouring in. Of them be taken advantage of. Crimes against them or committed by them. Sex rings. Racial persecution. (They have a long history of this)
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