This school is supposed to prepare North Korean defectors for the real world. But some say it does little to help – and the system needs an overhaul
Before she left North Korea, the woman known as “C” had caught glimpses of life across the border through smuggled television shows. People caught with foreign materials like books and movies, which are banned in the hermit nation, can face severe punishment. But C secretly watched the South Korean shows anyway, fascinated by what she called a “different reality” than the one she lived in.
During the Monday visit, Hanawon officials said they now teach mainly vocational lessons. “There’s a saying, ‘Teach someone how to fish rather than give them fish.’ Rather than giving financial aid, it is necessary to provide job training which is actually needed to survive in South Korea, and the training that helps them adjust to the South Korean system,” said Unification Minister Kwon Young-se during the tour.
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