North-South Korean couples try to bridge 75-year division

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Unification by marriage: Thousands of North Koreans, mostly women, have fled to the South in the past 20 years. Arriving from a repressive society, the women often struggle to adjust to fast-paced lives and face widespread discrimination and loneliness.

North Korean refugee Kim Seo-yun and her South Korean husband Lee Jeong-sup watch their wedding photos at their house in Seoul, South Korea Thursday, July 23, 2020. Tens of thousands of North Koreans, mostly women, have fled to South Korea over the past two decades. Arriving from a nominally socialist, extremely repressive society, these women often struggle to adjust to fast-paced, capitalistic lives in South Korea. They also face widespread discrimination, bias and loneliness.

While there are no official numbers on how many North Korean defectors have married South Korean men, a 2019 government-funded survey of 3,000 North Koreans living in the South suggested that 43% of married women were living with South Korean husbands, up from 19% in 2011. The number of matchmaking companies specializing in pairing North Korean women with South Korean men has seen an explosion, with 20 to 30 such agencies now operating, up from two in the mid-2000s.

There are, however, rough patches for some of the couples, who share a language and ethnicity but can often seem like exotic foreigners to one another. They are, after all, attempting to bridge a 75-year-old division of the Korean Peninsula.

 

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There are so many pressing issues. Definitely this is not a priority 😂😂😂

And good. At least someone happy in this world. *

So men remain incarcerated at a higher rate in dictatorship but women most affected? 🤔

Worried about refugees? Start addressing the issue here:

NK dictatorship, women most affected.

good story

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