Posted on 09/21/2013 9:29:58 PM PDT by TexGrill
In every way, Yu Woo-seong was a model defector. In his early 30s, he was smart, friendly, ambitious, and well liked.
Trained as a doctor in North Korea, he eschewed the competitive South Korean medical school system and instead pursued a bachelor's degree in business and Chinese at a prominent Seoul university. Although he was still adapting to his new environment, Yu completed his university studies in 2011, having been in South Korea for less than six years.
While taking on organizing roles in Seoul-based clubs and organizations for North Korean defectors, Yu gained entry into a master's degree program in education and social welfare. Less than one year into his graduate studies he was hired by Seoul's city hall as a special attache for North Korean defector projects. He balanced this demanding, full-time role with being president of a North-South youth organization. In addition to his study and work commitments, Yu was in high demand as a "reunification lecturer," giving information to South Korean government departments and schools about life in North Korea.
By most measures, there were few if any traces of Yu's "North Koreanness". Although his accent would, on occasion, hint at his foreign origins, he seemed comfortable in North Korean, South Korean, and Western social circles. In every way, he was a model assimilation case.
All that changed early this year, when Yu was arrested as a North Korean spy.
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inhospitality?
They give them money, houses, help integrating into SK society, and look at all the breaks this guy got when he went to the south.
But its “inhospitality”?
Sorry, but it’s true —some of them ARE NK spies.
NK doesn’t like dissident ex-patriots, esp not right on their border. So often they send out dangles to SK, the better for NK to get the low-down dope about the general path south —locations, protocols, personalities, funding sources.
And then they try to roll it up.
“Oh, you don’t like ‘Dear Leader’, huh...? Oh, okaaaay, yeah tell us more about that....”
SK might sometimes act xenophobic, sure, but when it comes to NK, there are some pretty good reasons to hold onto a little suspicion —or A LOT.
They had their airliners blown out of the sky, had their whole legislature blown up during an overseas trip, had their people kidnapped:
I can’t entirely blame them for being afraid.
Good thing you included the country in the title. I was about to git ready fer an argument
Debate Topic: Should Southerners greet Yankees with hospitality?
Are not Yankees refugees from oppressive governments and depressed economies?
They certain’y have greeted this westerner with hospitality. For that I am grateful
bump
Just don’t be a NorK spy, I guess that is the moral of the story
lol
With Norks brain washed severally from cradle to grave..
Must not be a joy dealing with them..
Their minds may be permanently re-arraigned and cross-threaded..
Like a pit bull one never knows when they will go crazy on ya..
Must be a Sork to understand probably..
They are so brainwashed they can escape from a starving slave nation where nothing works to a prosperous one where there is plenty of food and still think the old one was better.
I read about a couple of defectors who, after being around for weeks or months (aided and supported by the state), decided to go back to the North.
why?
The South Korean women were all too tall. The men of the north are so malnourished for so long there is that much physical difference?
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