Filmmaker Jeremy Workman discusses his film School for Defectors, premiering at this year's True/False Film Fest.

Thousands of S. Koreans gathered in central Seoul on Sunday to call for peaceful unification of the Korean Peninsula and oppose two-state framework ...

SEOUL, Oct. 22 (UPI) --North Korean defectors and experts urged the international community to step up pressure on Pyongyang over human rights abuses as a major conference on the issue opened in ...

Defector YouTuber Han Song-i reported on the reality of illegal plastic surgeries taking place in North Korea. Han Song-i, a 14-year veteran defector, mentioned the female organization called ...

A secret US operation spent months trying to obtain a Soviet MiG-15 during the Korean War. A North Korean defector who never heard of the operation handed them one and was paid $100,000 for it.

South Korea plans to develop new in-depth indicators to better detect suicide risk among North Korean defectors, with a particular focus on women, who account f ...

Charles Ryu started living on the street in North Korea when he was 11 years old. After his mother died of starvation, and with his father living in China, Ryu survived by begging strangers for food ...

The Seoul Metropolitan Government will expand the "Employment Retention Incentive Support Program for North Korean Defectors" this year. The ...

Seoul, South Korea (CNN) — In a quiet corner of Seoul’s Hyuga Cafe, a warm, honey-toned space nestled inside what once served as the dormitory for K-pop megaband BTS, two young men sip iced americanos ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Joan Vos MacDonald is a New York-based writer who covers Korean media. Nov 07, 2025, 08:18am EST A North Korean defector makes new ...