From Pyongyang with love: defectors find a perfect match with South Korean men
Female refugees from the north are being paired with husbands in the south. But some fear that the patriarchy is the real winner…
Dating had never been easy for Kim Jeong-soon. In her native North Korea, couples holding hands were chastised for “disturbing public order”, and when she arrived in South Korea potential suitors were often repelled by the mere fact of the country of her birth.
It was with a certain reservation, then, that she went on a blind date with a South Korean man three years ago; Kim Jong-il – whose name in the south is pronounced slightly differently to
