North Korea
Inside Hanawon: How N. Korean defectors build a new life in S. Korea
July 10, 2022
ANSEONG, Gyeonggi Province – With high walls and barbed-wire fences, the Hanawon resettlement center has the country’s top security level, but for thousands of people it has also offered a step toward freedom. Hanawon is where North Korean defectors prepare to start a new life and fend for themselves in South Korea before integrating into an unfamiliar world that they desired to live in. A total of 33,815 North Korean defectors have arrived in South Korea as of 2021. Among them, wo