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While tens of thousands risk everything to flee North Korea, a few, having failed to adjust to the capitalist South, make a desperate journey back.

Nearly 1 in 5 North Korean refugees in South Korea said they have thought about going back, according to a 2021 survey by the nonprofit Database Center for North Korean Human Rights. The reason most often given is missing one’s hometown or family. Some said they experienced discrimination in South Korea or found the capitalist society too competitive, according to the survey.

Man’s decision raises questions about treatment of defectors in South Korea with many said to face discrimination

A former North Korean defector who made a risky and rare cross-border return home last week had struggled in South Korea, officials and media reports said on Tu

Official says man who crossed into North Korea last week was a defector who had struggled in his new life in the South.

Returned N Korea defector struggled to resettle in South, lived meagre life

SEOUL (REUTERS) - A former North Korean defector who made a risky and rare cross-border return home last week had struggled in South Korea, officials and media reports said on Tuesday (Jan 4), sparking fresh debate over how such defectors are treated in their new lives. . Read more at straitstimes.com.

A man who previously defected from North Korea avoided South Korea’s border controls to reenter the North on Saturday. Seoul’s military said there was no

A new study sheds light on how parental behaviors modulate infants' processing of affective (soothing) touch. The research indicates that infants tend to ...

Starving families risk their lives to contact relatives from abroad to receive remittances.