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From trauma to training - new lives for North Korea’s defectors
When defectors from North Korea arrive in South Korea, they spend three months in a special facility in Seoul, called Hanawon, the Settlement Support Center for North Korean Refugees. It functions as a training hub, medical facility, and also education center to help North Koreans adjust their lives in a place where things look so advanced and different from the closed country. So, those defectors need to get used to modern living standards, tools, and the environment before they start living in the real world, just like time travelers arrived in the future from the past. As they are mentally fragile because of the stress of escape, fear of being caught, and guilt of having their family in the North, psychiatrists are there to support them. Hanawon is the place where North Korean defectors learn how to settle in South Korea.
Read the article and learn about the challenges that North Korean defectors face.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-66154263
From trauma to training - new lives for North Korea’s defectors
When defectors from North Korea arrive in South Korea, they spend three months in a special facility in Seoul, called Hanawon, the Settlement Support Center for North Korean Refugees. It functions as a training hub, medical facility, and also education center to help North Koreans adjust their lives in a place where things look so advanced and different from the closed country. So, those defectors need to get used to modern living standards, tools, and the environment before they start living in the real world, just like time travelers arrived in the future from the past. As they are mentally fragile because of the stress of escape, fear of being caught, and guilt of having their family in the North, psychiatrists are there to support them. Hanawon is the place where North Korean defectors learn how to settle in South Korea.
Read the article and learn about the challenges that North Korean defectors face.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-66154263
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