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Continuing with yesterday’s topic.

Still a news excerpt.

Let’s talk about “North Korean defectors” first.

Why “North Korean Defectors” Want to Return to North Korea

Our reporter Gao Qingnian’s reference

February 26, 2015

["North Korean defectors" are ostracized everywhere in South Korea, and their children are beaten and discriminated against in schools.

How do you say Frappuccino in Korean? In a Starbucks in Seoul, a "North Korean defector" looked at the drink list with trepidation and was at a loss. Koreans would order "juice" to quench their thirst, but North Koreans chose to buy "sweet water"

, such rustic statements often make "North Korean defectors" ridiculed.

Park Sang-hak told the Financial Times that foreign words like Americano on the menu often put "North Korean defectors" into trouble.

"The Koreans didn't know what we were talking about, so they asked us to repeat it again and again, so we stopped speaking and became timid."

Whenever others tell jokes about Korean pop culture, "North Korean defector" Kim Kyung-il can only giggle. Many classmates in the class are unwilling to pay attention to him. He told the New York Times: "I feel like I am from the last century.

People from the 1970s were put into a time machine and fell into the 21st century.”

Lee, who came to South Korea with her mother at the age of 9, knows this very well. She lived in China for a while before going to South Korea, but as soon as she arrived at the airport, the experienced Koreans immediately became hostile to her. The immigration officer asked

Why did she and her mother come to South Korea? Her mother honestly said that she wanted to live a good life, and the other party sarcastically replied, "I wish you good luck."

In daily life, the biggest problem Lee faces is the indifference of Koreans. "The words Koreans speak are not pure Korean, which makes me very tired." She told the Irish website "hendicott writing" that Koreans think they come from poverty.

People in this country are uneducated and rude, but she feels that Koreans are coquettish, hypocritical and pretentious.]

Foreign media: North Korean defectors have a high suicide rate and cannot stand the lower class in South Korea

January 23, 2016 07:22 Reference News Network

[Foreign media said that freedom also has a price. South Korean statistics show that the suicide death rate of North Korean "North Korean defectors" is more than three times the South Korean average.

A report by the British Broadcasting Corporation stated that there is more than one reason for this phenomenon. First, the homeland that "North Korean defectors" fled is close at hand, but it is also far away and they cannot return; second, the economic reality they face

It may be quite different from the glamor depicted in Korean dramas smuggled into North Korea.

Kim Song-il fled North Korea 15 years ago and is now working in his seventh profession. He has driven a bus, worked as a construction worker and ran a restaurant. Now, he has his own business: selling chicken nuggets.

Kim Song-il said: "It turned out that the business failed and I tried to commit suicide three times. I can only keep reminding myself that I risked my life to get here."

He said that one of the difficulties was that as an officer in North Korea, he was used to giving orders; as an employee in a capitalist society, it was not easy to obey his orders.

According to reports, in a survey, 50% of "North Korean defectors" described their social status as "upper class" or "middle class" in North Korea, but only 26% said they had this status in South Korea.

The vast majority (73%) describe themselves as "lower class".

The problem is that the skills learned in North Korea are not enough to survive in South Korea's modern economic system, said Lankov, a historian at Kookmin University in Seoul. Doctors who defected, for example, often cannot find jobs in South Korea's medical industry.

The hardships of outsiders.

North Korean defectors: North Koreans look to China as savior in era of famine

July 18, 2015 10:09

Source: China Youth Network Reference News Network

[According to a report on the BBC website on July 17, Li Rui has just published her memoir "The Girl with Seven Names", which tells how she left North Korea, became anonymous, and hid with relatives in China.

After living for 10 years, she moved to South Korea to seek asylum, and then through a tortuous process, she helped her family leave North Korea like a god. This story was told on the TED podium in 2013, and was also featured by a famous American host that year.

Named "The Most Engaging TED Talk" by Oprah's Official Magazine.

Q: Do you miss North Korea?

Li: I have always missed North Korea. It is also my mother’s dream to go back. You know, it is my homeland, there are memories there, and there are relatives there. Why not? Because I can’t go back, I miss it even more.]

Like I said yesterday.

When "North Korean defectors" are in North Korea, they want to go to South Korea.

I went to South Korea and found that everything was different from what I imagined.

So I wanted to go back again.

I thought of a word and it backfired.

I smuggled myself to the United States. You don’t understand my bitterness.

Strait Economic Network 04-13 21:24

Author: Ji Chenxuan

["People around the world are afraid of the United States, and American people are afraid of Changle"

"Men must have the courage to go abroad. Only those who have no ability will suffer hardship and poverty at home."

Lin Cifei, president of the American Fujian Chamber of Commerce, said that in Changle, this concept has been deeply ingrained in the thinking of local people. In almost all villages, a family's identity and status are measured by whether a family member has gone abroad.

The Nanyang Research Institute of Xiamen University once conducted a survey and found that a large number of people from Fuzhou went to the United States mainly in the 1980s and 1990s. More than half of them went abroad through informal channels, which are the so-called "smugglers". They are among the "snakeheads"

Under the leadership of the police, they usually "leave the country legally and turn around illegally" by traveling, passing through some transit countries and finally arriving in the United States.

Nick clearly remembers that on the day he graduated from junior high school at the age of 15, he had the idea of ​​​​going to the United States. Two months later, his parents raised and borrowed 400,000 yuan for Nick's smuggling expenses. Counting from the day he embarked on the smuggling journey

From then on, it took Nick and his fellow countrymen a total of 7 months and 9 days to enter the United States.

"We traveled to more than a dozen countries, including Mozambique, Angola, Switzerland, Spain, the United Kingdom, etc. It can be said that we traveled half of the world before reaching the United States."

Nick said, "For people like us, it is basically impossible to go to the United States directly through visas. We have to use third-party countries as transit points, fly back and forth to different countries in the name of tourism, and stay in many places.

Leaving at night is not as wonderful as others think."

"This method of smuggling is called "head-swapping" in Changle. For example, when he flew from China to Thailand, he used his own passport. After arriving in Thailand, he would change to a fake passport and fly to another country, and so on.

, until finally flying to the United States or a country bordering the United States." Nick said.

During this journey of more than half a year, Nick not only lost contact with his family completely, but was also imprisoned for it. "When I arrived in France, the customs officers found that my passport was fake, so they detained me and kept questioning me about

Regarding the issue of fake passports, in order not to be deported to my country, I could only keep silent and refused to answer, and then they put me in jail."

More than ten days later, the "smuggler" found a lawyer and released him on bail from prison.

In the history of stowaways in Fujian, Nick was lucky compared to other stowaways. In May 1993, a cargo ship named "Golden Adventure" carried more than 200 stowaways from Fujian across the Pacific. In

The original plan was for the American connector to pick up these stowaways on the high seas. Unexpectedly, the connector was

He died in a vendetta by the Chinese underworld "Fuqing Gang". After waiting helplessly on the high seas for two weeks, the "snakehead" realized that there was no hope of picking up the immigrants, so he ran aground one morning and let the stowaways swim ashore by themselves. Due to the long wait,

During the sea voyage, some of the stowaways were weak, some could not swim, and the water was cold. In the end, 10 people drowned.

Since ancient times, residents along the coast of Fujian have had the tradition of going to sea to make a living. Relevant data shows that a large number of Fujianese immigrated to the United States began in 1992. In the second year alone, more than 20,000 people smuggled into the United States through various means, and the ban has been repeated. In Changle

In this area, after the villagers went through many hardships and arrived in the United States, they would immediately start taking a group of fellow villagers to smuggle them across. In this way, they guided each other from generation to generation, forming the "Changle Gang" in the United States, which is famous overseas.

"Changle people in the United States not only support each other, they also extend olive branches to relatives and friends far away in China, attracting them to come to the United States." Lin Cifei said, "Now, Changle people have formed their own immigrant gang in the United States, and they continue to use

Immigrating to the United States through collective migration inevitably makes the U.S. government somewhat helpless, so there is a saying that "people around the world are afraid of the United States, and American people are afraid of Changle."

Among the Chinese community in the United States, there is a saying: If you can speak Fuzhou dialect, you will not starve to death on the streets of New York's Chinatown. After arriving in the United States through smuggling or being guided by relatives in the United States, a large number of Changle people began to enter New York.

Chinatown. Now, Changle people have become the largest ethnic group among the Chinese in New York. Not only that, East Broadway Street in New York's Chinatown has been called "Fuzhou Street".

"Many people saw other people crossing the border illegally and tried their best to come over. But they found out that it was far from the case. There was no use regretting it. They could only just wait and see it day by day." said Zhang Kai, who had worked as a reporter for the American Overseas Chinese Newspaper for three years.

, “There have been fewer and fewer stowaways in recent years.”

In the Minjiang estuary area, stowaways are also called "Wanbake" because the fee for smuggling to the United States in the early days was US$18,000. Later, as the number of smugglers increased, the smuggling fees also continued to rise.

Around 2000, it had risen to US$50,000 to US$60,000.

"If such smuggled immigrants use so much money to go to the United States, wouldn't they be able to enjoy a very good life in China? In fact, this is not the case. This money is not what they originally have, but they go to the United States through smuggling immigrants.

Obtain financing and obtain external investment in his human capital." said Long Denggao, director of the Chinese Business Research Center at Tsinghua University.

"Generally speaking, after 10 years, he can open a restaurant outside New York, buy a house and a car, and at this time he will become a boss and an entrepreneur. They have been sharpening their swords for ten years, and they have almost turned around, and they have

The next generation has also followed suit.”

"This is not universal for farmers in China. Only a very few people can do this. Think about it, if our farmers go to Shenzhen or Beijing to work, it is almost impossible for them to obtain a Beijing household registration or a Shenzhen household registration. But

If he smuggles himself into the United States, he may obtain a green card and even obtain American citizenship."

It can also be said that the stowaway fee is equivalent to an admission ticket. The reason why stowaways spend huge sums of money to buy tickets is to give themselves a better future.】

this...

In my opinion, it's more like a big gamble.

Thousands of troops crossed the single-plank bridge.

Risk everything, just for a chance to make a comeback.

There's nothing right or wrong.

It's not easy to stay. It's not easy to leave either.
To be continued...