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What's going on in South Korea where someone in their 30s tried to get back to literally North Korea rather than stay? I know KPop is annoying, but cmon.
In South Korea? Nothing. But when you've been effectively institutionalized your entire life, adapting to a significantly freer society can be difficult or impossible.
Yeah, I bet he tried to run back because he was too free.
This is a well known issue with refugees of hyper-authoritarian places. NK refugees discuss this a lot. Like the other person said, this is a well known phenomenon with freed prisoners, too. Basically you spent so much time conforming to a very, very, specific way of living, that you are stuck in that mind frame. Without a lot of therapy you are likely to be unable to adjust. Just like people who have been in abusive households their whole lives, yet return to them, because they can't function, when they are in a freer circumstance.
This well understood issue.
Basically, yeah. Like I said, integration into society is difficult if you've been institutionalized. Going from a highly controlled and regimented life to one where you have to do everything yourself is difficult. I'm not surprised that some people reject it. We see the same thing when people get out of long prison terms.
South Korea famously treats defectors like shit when they are just working class people that want a better life instead of parroting ridiculous US State Dept propaganda.
"Once defectors make it to South Korea, often after a perilous journey across multiple countries, they go through interrogation by the government intelligence agency. Then they are sent to the main Hanawon complex in Anseong, 40 miles southeast of Seoul, to prepare for their new lives in the South.
The facility offers medical and psychiatric care. It teaches defectors about South Korean society and gender equality, and provides occupational training and counseling for skills including cooking, baking, nail art, skin care, clothes-making and mending, and long-term caregiving.
After completing the three-month program, defectors receive subsidies and housing benefits, as well as continued support from local centers to help them assimilate during their early years living in South Korea."
Doesn't sound like they treat them like shit. Sounds like they actually have a very efficient and well-funded system to welcome and integrate defectors.
Are you yourself working for North Korea or something? "OMG yeah North Korea so great, they treat you like shit in South Korea, definitely don't go there, the music is also bad."
I think the poster meant "they" as in South Korean society in general rather than the government.
When I was living over in Seoul, I volunteered at an organization that supported North Korean refugees. There were lots of native South Korean people there too. I imagine it's a mixed bag, similar to the US.
Actually he just had an exam coming up.