Chosun Ilbo Re-Runs Accounts of “On the Border” Refugees

If you haven’t seen “On the Border,” the Chosun Ilbo has re-posted the accounts of the refugees featured in the documentary:

– Young-Hwa, a 19 year-old girl crossing China and Laos with her family.

– Kim Soon-Ok, the young mother of a handicapped child, forced to leave him behind in China to earn money for his medical treatment and passage to South Korea.

– Mun Yun-Hee, a 26 year-old woman who allowed herself to be sold to escape starvation in her homeland.

– Kim Man-Soo, the almost indescribably tough logger who escaped from a camp in Siberia and spent the next ten years making his way though the wilderness.

– Choi Sung-Ryung, an 8 year-old orphan boy who found himself alone in Thailand and at the mercy of South Korean bureaucrats.

– The correspondents’ story of how Chinese guides are now conducting “human safaris” along the North Korean border.

I hope one day the Chosun Ilbo will tell us what ever happened to all these people. There are also video links at the end of each story. I presume they’re all in Korean, but they didn’t work for me. A segment of the BBC version is available here.